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Having never used Claude and only Codex, does Claude actually say “this is too involved” as a response to a prompt?

Yes it does. Usually after hours of working and not getting results

I am curious, what kind of work do you use Claude for that sometimes requires hours of working. In my case, I have never seen it go off for more than 10 mins and even that is very rare.

https://github.com/mohsen1/tsz

debugging code. I had some issue so I create a plan to root cause that would run the code, change some functions or variables and run again until we get a confirmed answer.

I just work up to that very workflow this morning. I ran last night and finished at around 3am with ~200k tokens spent. Fixed the issue and created a follow up doc for things that it could not verify.

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