After you created a spec did you ask the Claude to break down the spec into epic...

egorfine · 2026-01-21T16:05:34 1769011534

I believe that's something it does automatically now.

In the past it did help a lot, but now it's the default behavior.

rahimnathwani · 2026-01-21T16:23:50 1769012630

I've seen it create plans of 6-8 steps. I have not seen it automatically decide to break down a spec into 30+ tasks.

egorfine · 2026-01-21T16:36:22 1769013382

Ah, this.

Of course, but if your single request to claude code requires 30+ tasks then it's certainly way too big for llm to code from scratch.

rahimnathwani · 2026-01-21T16:45:41 1769013941

This is false.

I've had Claude Code successfully work on a spec that requires 30+ tasks, with my only input being 'great, keep going'.

egorfine · 2026-01-21T16:48:08 1769014088

Excellent!

If LLMs are capable of delivering completely automatically a solution that includes that many tasks then surely in 6 months from now programmers will be out of job.

/s