Plan mode is not dead, it just moved to OpenSpec and other similar tools.

If you’re not using those either… I pray for your codebase.

My problem with planning and having the models ask the user questions is that the questions the models ask are still often irrelevant: you’ll find yourself answering a bunch of questions like “Should I use the existing system or create a whole new one in a different language?” - yet it will then make assumptions about other things that were actually ambiguous.

I still use plan mode, but during plan mode I will spin out sub agents to implement the current draft in a tmp dir and bring back lessons. I feel this keeps me grounded in my original starting point, rather than ending up with a implemention that meanders through the agents own discovery process. It also lets me ask concrete questions about (possible) implementation

Still working on and with this but had to move it private because marketplace installed plugins loose capability

https://github.com/samelie/claude-plugin-pnpm/tree/main/skil...

The second I discovered the plan start hook I hijacked it and replaced the built-in planner with my own. The built-in planner is useless.

Switched from opencode to pi and I do kinda miss planning mode. I like spending a bit more time in that phase and having multiple providers LLM look at the spec doc etc

That’s very much coming from a desire for improved quality than understanding though

I’m curious if anyone has used automations for any kind of regular refactoring and cleanup tasks? Most agent guis support it.

It's been a while (well, 8 months) since I used Claude Code, but what I can say is that I greatly enjoy using the plan mode that comes baked into omp (oh my pi), especially for tasks around firmware development. I recognize that has a very different workflow than webapps though.

I have noticed this in practice the past month. It’s interesting because goals and plans are obsolete. Skills too.

Much of what distinguished a knowledgeable AI dev a year ago is now an anti pattern.

I'd like a brainstorming mode, with limited side effects.

I want it to go and read stuff but also invoke some commands and generate reports and discuss on the results. Latest GPTs in codex plan mode always go.. write a plan. Shocking, i know, but thats not what i want on every turn when im in that mode.