LLMs can be absolutely exhausting

Some days I get in bed after a tortuous 4-5 hour session working with Claude or Codex wondering what the heck happened. It's easy to blame the model - there's so many options to choose from: They're dumbing down the model to save money. Context rot! Codex/Claude Code/[insert harness] is getting bloated. It's not uncommon for me to come back to the problem the next day, my own context window…