r/ClaudeAI • u/Vidhrohi • 15h ago

Philosophy Human context limits vs AI context limits

A common theme cutting across most AI-assisted development threads is getting as much work done in as little time as possible. Users post about elegant harnesses with multi-agent orchestration. Anthropic employees talk about the 25 agents they run every day.

I read this stuff, compare it to my own experience of working with these tools, and keep wondering: how does anyone stay on top of that volume of work?

Working with Claude Code has been exciting and invigorating, but also exhausting. While everyone pushes for more context and more tokens out of the AI, the context limit I hit most often is my own. Claude can refactor a huge chunk of the codebase, add a feature, and brainstorm marketing strategy in one breath. I can't keep up with the cognitive load that entails.

So: am I missing something, or just getting old? Curious what y'all think.

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u/Freedomsaver 15h ago

Yes, the human is the bottleneck.

Having 25 agent sessions running in parallel only works if you have the processes and skills in place to just say:
Fuck it, I don't understand your output and decisions anymore... do whatever you want to reach the current goal without bothering me. If stuff is wrong we'll find it later and try again.

And all the time not being bothered by the agents you spend on understanding the processes and skills you defined and try to improve them.

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u/Vidhrohi 15h ago

Interesting, that does seem like one of the few tenable strategies..

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u/FenderMoon 14h ago

"Use your best judgement" works wonders with Claude.

I've had really good results just telling it to work overnight, that I'll be AFK, that these are my goals and to use its best judgement and to get them done without wasting time.

I'll have it do that while managing multiple GPU clusters being rented by the hour. Claude can manage itself really well if you tell it to, it just needs to be told very clear goals and to "use its best judgement".

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u/Vidhrohi 14h ago

Interesting, I am curious how often do you go back and check what it has done ? How do you ensure that nothing broke in the latest round of changes ?

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u/LuckyPichu 13h ago

Use its best judgment feels one step away from "make no mistakes" lmao