@L1vsun: i spent 3 months building the most optimized claude code setup possible it was running worse than day one 23 plugins, 8…

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A developer shares that after spending 3 months over-optimizing a Claude code setup with 23 plugins and multiple frameworks, performance was worse than day one; deleting almost everything dramatically improved results, emphasizing that a minimal setup often works best.

i spent 3 months building the most optimized claude code setup possible it was running worse than day one 23 plugins, 8 skills, 5 MCP servers, 3 custom frameworks, a context tool i found on twitter at 2am every session opened with 40% of context window already burned hitting limits before i typed a real prompt deleted almost everything. kept 2 first session after the purge felt like switching to a better model didn't switch models just stopped suffocating it with "improvements" your context window isn't full because of your work it's full because of everything you added to help with the work Bookmark it or continue using LLM like normie the best setup is almost nothing
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i spent 3 months building the most optimized claude code setup possible

it was running worse than day one

23 plugins, 8 skills, 5 MCP servers, 3 custom frameworks, a context tool i found on twitter at 2am

every session opened with 40% of context window already burned

hitting limits before i typed a real prompt

deleted almost everything. kept 2

first session after the purge felt like switching to a better model

didn’t switch models

just stopped suffocating it with “improvements”

your context window isn’t full because of your work

it’s full because of everything you added to help with the work

Bookmark it or continue using LLM like normie

the best setup is almost nothing

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