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Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform

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Re: Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform

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I'll let them (ai companies) figure it out while i keep coding manually.

I'll wait for the day they will release a js library to programmatically do all this llm context juggling, instead of using a UI, and then I will adopt it by doing what I do now, writting code.

I will write code that orchestrates llms for writting code.

Edit: This is obviously a joke... but is it really a joke?

Re: Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform

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I exit and restart CC all the time to get a “Fresh perspective on the universe as it now is”.

Isn't /clear enough to do that? I know some permissions survive from previous sessions, but it served me well

The one time I tried I felt like /clear may have dropped all my .claude files as well, but I didn’t look at it closely.

Re: Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform

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Yes we had the same issue with our coding agent. We found that instead of replacing large tool results in the context it was sometimes better to have two agents, one long lived with smaller tool results produced by another short lived agent that would actually be the one to read and edit large chunks. The downside of this is you always have to manage the balance of which agent gets what context, and you also increase…

I found that having sub agents just for running and writing unit tests got me over 90% of my context woes

Seems like that could be a job local LLMs do fairly well soon; not a ton of reasoning, just a basic ability to understand functions and write fairly boilerplate code, but it involves a ton of tokens, especially if you have lots of verbose output from a test run. So doing it locally could end up being a huge cost savings as well.

Re: Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform

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/compact does most of that, for me at least /compact we will now work on x, discard y, keep z

the trouble with compact is that no one really knows how it works and what it does. hence, for me at least, there is just no way I would ever allow my context to get there. you should seriously reconsider ever using compact (I mean this literally) - the quality of CC at that point is order of magnitute significantly worse that you are doing yourself significant disservice

You mean you never stay in a CC session long enough to even see the auto compaction warning?

Re: Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform

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Gemini 2.5 pro is generally non-competitive with GPT-5-medium or Sonnet 4.5. But never fear, Gemini 3.0 is rumored to be coming out Tuesday.

based on what? LLM benchmarks are all bullshit, so this is based on... your gut? Gemini outputs what I want with a similar regularity as the other bots. I'm so tired of the religious thinking around these models. show me a measurement.

Please tell me this comment is a joke.

Re: Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform

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Don’t they use Stripe? You can remove your payment method at any time. But Anthropic doesn’t really have your info in the first place.

How? First I wanted to just use iOS In-App-Purchases like ChatGPT and Grok etc all support, but Anthropic has this "We're too special" syndrome and don't offer IAP so I had to sign in on the website (and guess what, iOS app supports Sign In With Apple but the website doesn't) and add my card… but no way to remove the card later. Steam and others have figured it out, but Anthropic/Discord (who just had a breach like y…

My Claude subscription is through iOS IAPs.

Re: Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform

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the trouble with compact is that no one really knows how it works and what it does. hence, for me at least, there is just no way I would ever allow my context to get there. you should seriously reconsider ever using compact (I mean this literally) - the quality of CC at that point is order of magnitute significantly worse that you are doing yourself significant disservice

You mean you never stay in a CC session long enough to even see the auto compaction warning?

100% - read this - https://blog.nilenso.com/blog/2025/09/15/ai-unit-of-work/

Re: Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform

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How? First I wanted to just use iOS In-App-Purchases like ChatGPT and Grok etc all support, but Anthropic has this "We're too special" syndrome and don't offer IAP so I had to sign in on the website (and guess what, iOS app supports Sign In With Apple but the website doesn't) and add my card… but no way to remove the card later. Steam and others have figured it out, but Anthropic/Discord (who just had a breach like y…

My Claude subscription is through iOS IAPs.

I could swear I didn't even see the option for an IAP on iOS… maybe it's region-locked?

Re: Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform

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My Claude subscription is through iOS IAPs.

I could swear I didn't even see the option for an IAP on iOS… maybe it's region-locked?

Maybe, but I wouldn't suggest doing it even if you figure it out. It has some really annoying side effects on subscription management for Claude, and additionally they mark up the plan cost by 20%. Which I didn't care about on the $20 Pro, but now with $200 plans.

I haven't figured out* how to switch to a direct subscription other than cancelling and resubscribing, and I'm afraid of messing up my account access.

* Caveat that I haven't spent more than 20 minutes trying to solve this.

Re: Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform

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How are they not SOTA? They're all very similar with ChatGPT being the worst (for my use case anyway). Like adding lambdas and random c++ function calls into my vulkan shaders.

Gemini 2.5 pro is generally non-competitive with GPT-5-medium or Sonnet 4.5. But never fear, Gemini 3.0 is rumored to be coming out Tuesday.

The random people tweets I've seen said Oct 9th which is Thursday. I suppose we will know when we know.
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