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by xg15 11 hours ago
> Create Claude Code project for [redacted]’ is still unchecked, and we’re sitting in it.

Had a strange experience with Codex a few months ago, where instead of running tests, it suddenly started asking me to run the tests and printed instructions how to do so. (And yes, it was in "act" mode, not in "plan" mode)

I noticed the context window was running full - and indeed, compacting the conversation made the model go back to its normal behavior.

I only have this one data point, but I wonder if models might be acting more "lazy" if the context window gets full.

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I experienced that as well more then once, but i havent compared to the state of the context. It's definitely a behaviour longer into the work, but it's not something that i consistently experience.
A few days ago Claude swore blind to me, "I'm approaching my context window, so you should do...".

It was at ~300k / 1M.

Very strange behaviour to observe.