[simonw]

Claude Code could absolutely run Playwright and take screenshots, but I've never seen it wire together an ad-hoc "uv run --with pyobjc-framework-Quartz" plus "screencapture -l $windowID" mechanism to take a screenshot in a different browser when the Playwright setup failed to replicate the expected error.

[skerit]

I've seen Opus do some incredibly token-costly things before too. In fact after most sessions I ask it about which tools it used often, which tools could be simplified/made less verbose, could be "combined" into one, ... So for each project I mostly create a few little scripts that do a bunch of things in one go that it would normally do in multiple tool calls.

For example: one thing Opus was really bad at was re-running the test suite followed by a bunch of `| grep` suffixes. So it would often re-run 5+ minute test suites just to grep the output a bit differently

The solution was to wire up a little script that ran the test suite, save the output to a file, and then inform it where that file is and to NOT re-run the suite just so it can grep the output differently. This saved me a bunch of time & tokens.