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> Claude doesn't run out of patience like a human being does.

It very much does! I had a debugging session with Claude Code today, and it was about to give up with the message along the lines of “I am sorry I was not able to help you find the problem”.

It took some gentle cheering (pretty easy, just saying “you are doing an excellent job, don’t give up!”) and encouragement, and a couple of suggestions from me on how to approach the debug process for it to continue and finally “we” (I am using plural here because some information that Claude “volunteered” was essential to my understanding of the problem) were able to figure out the root cause and the fix.

[ericphanson]

Claude told me it stopped debugging since it would run out of tokens in its context window. I asked how many tokens it had left and it said actually it had plenty so could continue. Then again it stopped, and without me asking about tokens, wrote

Context Usage • Used: 112K/200K tokens (56%) • Remaining: 88K tokens • Sufficient for continued debugging, but fresh session recommended for clarity

lol. I said ok use a subagent for clarity.

[lordnacho]

That's interesting, that only happened to me on GPT models in Cursor. It would apologize profusely.