[simon_rider]

feels like we just traded "not enough context" for "too much noise." The million-token window is cool for marketing, but until retrieval and summarization get way better, it’s like dumping the entire repo on a junior dev’s desk and saying "figure it out." They’ll spend half their time paging through irrelevant crap, and the other half hallucinating connections. Bigger context is only a net win if the model can filter, prioritize, and actually reason over it

[whalesalad]

I can't tell you the number of times I had almost reached utopia only to hit compaction limits. Post-compaction I am usually dead in the water and the spiraling or repetition begins. Claude has a hard time compacting/remembering/flaggign a-ha moments from the session. Stuff that is important in the context of the task, but not appropriate for CLAUDE.md for instance. I have been thinking for months that if the context window was 2-3x larger, I would be unstoppable. So happy for this change, and excited to test it this week.