How I personally deal with Claude's limits without giving up on Opus

I only use Sonnet as my main model. I instruct it to delegate indexing and similar grunt work to Haiku, and whenever something genuinely needs deeper thinking, I tell it to "consult Opus." Sonnet then explains the situation to Opus, gets the input, and acts on it. But Sonnet always stays as the main driver. It's a good worker; good at coding, good at reading, and good at consulting Opus when needed. I've saved around 60% on usage this way. I'd recommend this to anyone on Max who's still hitting

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