[cnj]

I predict that Anthropic will clamp down on the heavy agentic use of Claude Pro, the cost gap between Claude Code and this approach is HUGE...

Anyway, I'm doing the same - one extra tip is to use the "project" feature of Claude Desktop to give your coding assistant some context - use it similar to .cursorrules.

[jasonjmcghee]

Why would they? There's already rate limits in place. If you use it too much, you have to stop for a while. Whether you're doing text extraction from large documents, having it write your memoir, or using a diy Claude Code, what's the difference?

[ezyang]

There's also some fundamental limitations to the Desktop MCP experience that are probably never getting fixed; Claude Code can spin off subagents and play around with the context, I assume that Claude Desktop's form factor is basically going to stay the way it is until the end of time lol.