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建立時間： 2026-03-28 來源： https://steipete.me/posts/2025/optimal-ai-development-workflow
Summary
Peter Steinberger’s workflow post-experimentation update (August 2025): Ghostty terminal + Claude Code as primary driver, VS Code for code lookup/reviews, minimal MCP setup. Core philosophy: “less is more” — removed the last MCP because it caused Claude to spin up Playwright unnecessarily and pollute context.
Peter Steinberger 的工作流程後實驗更新（2025 年 8 月）：Ghostty 終端 + Claude Code 作為主要驅動器，VS Code 用於代碼查找/審查，最少 MCP 設置。核心理念：「少即是多」——刪除了最後一個 MCP，因為它導致 Claude 不必要地啟動 Playwright 並污染上下文。
Key Points
- Setup: Ghostty (main terminal) + Claude Code CLI + VS Code (code lookup/Cursor for reviews)
- Removed worktree setup: tried it, slowed down; works directly on main with careful area selection
- Parallel agents: 1-2 for non-refactoring work; ~4 for cleanup/tests/UI; scale to blast radius
- Context is precious: removed all MCPs — Claude was spinning up Playwright unasked when reading code would be faster and cleaner
- Plan mode + iteration: smaller tasks done immediately; larger ones written to file, reviewed with GPT-5 before execution
- Tests written in same context: AI finds issues when tests are written within the current session, not as a separate pass
- Hard parts: distributed system design, dependency selection, database schema — these resist AI delegation
Insights
The “removed last MCP” decision is the key operational insight: MCP tools load specs and can be invoked spontaneously by the agent, consuming context and sometimes doing more than needed. Reading code directly is both faster and context-efficient for many tasks. The “4 agents for cleanup/tests/UI” versus “1-2 for main work” calibration reflects real usage patterns — UI and test work is more parallelizable (lower blast radius) than core logic changes. The “context is precious” theme echoes the Anthropic context engineering post — practitioners are converging on this independently.
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Raw Excerpt
Even removed my last MCP, since Claude sometimes would go off spinning up Playwright unasked when it could simply read the code — which is faster and pollutes the context less. Less is more.