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Tell HN: Claude session limits getting small

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Re: Tell HN: Claude session limits getting small

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I have never had any of these problems using codex. Codex just works. on like the cheapest organization plan, I've never hit any limits, ever. Meanwhile I go on hackernews every day and I see you people talking about claude like its 1943 and you're frustrated that your cheese rations have been cut again.

claude has half the context window size of codex and blows through a good percentage of it right off the bat by injecting a system prompt the size of don quixote

Re: Tell HN: Claude session limits getting small

#13
I stopped using Anthropic when they pulled a shitty fast one on Max users by limiting Opus usage and forcing people to use sonnet.

I’m happy with Codex 5.2 Extra high reasoning. It works imo way better, doesn’t bug out (CC has so many bugs), and I barely ever go below 40% weekly usage

Re: Tell HN: Claude session limits getting small

#14
post #4

I have never had any of these problems using codex. Codex just works. on like the cheapest organization plan, I've never hit any limits, ever. Meanwhile I go on hackernews every day and I see you people talking about claude like its 1943 and you're frustrated that your cheese rations have been cut again.

Claude code sucks. Only noobs and X stans push it imo.

Re: Tell HN: Claude session limits getting small

#15
post #3

Do you mean context size before compacting?

Yes, it never compacts anymore, just stops responding in the middle of a discussion. i thought it was one off but after 7 sessions of the same behavior it became very frustrating.

Just sounds like a bug. Try older version of CC.

Re: Tell HN: Claude session limits getting small

#16

Is it project-unrelated, that you ran into limits so quickly? If it's just in some repos, it might be a bloated claude.md. Looking forward reading from you, if you get some helpful insights

It is all related, it happens in the middle of a debug session where it just stops responding with no error message and my last message remains in the chat window. i have to then start a new session and explain the context of pervious session and Claud goes on to ask for more context from the code and then by the time I get to any new code the session does what i explained above. i don’t allow Cluade to access my cod…

Ok. This isn't something I experienced, but it sounds strange. Are you using the Claude desktop client (electron app)? This thing is quite buggy and unreliable.. Or is the described behaviour in claude.ai browser input existent as well?
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