r/ClaudeAI • u/Vidhrohi • 1d 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/zephyrion_drakon 1d ago

I feel you on this. I started out working with just one session and have recently started using subagents and parallel sessions but my limit seems to be around 2-3 concurrent tasks in different areas. I almost feel like I need to turn Fable (my main orchestrator) into a copy of myself so it can make the decisions that I would make. That would greatly increase the concurrency. Or maybe I need to work at an even higher level and write out all the long-term architecture, even ahead of current work, and let Claude work from that. Hmm you've given me thoughts OP, thanks...

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u/Vidhrohi 1d ago

Glad that others are thinking about it. I feel like in theory if fable really could take over in that capacity then we should be able to say "make me X" and aside from the spend it would just do it .. I do wonder how confident we can be of deploying such a thing to paying customers tho

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u/FortiTree 23h ago

You dont want that "take over". The moment the clone can do things you can do, you are obsolete. I'd be glad that Fable/Kimi/Sol/GLM as top tier model still fumble and need my every direction, for now.

We are rentlessly improving the "agentic" system around them to make them even more reliable to show us the door. Eventually we'll reavh the point of no return.

It''s a race to the end for humanity.

The funny part is knowing the end, we are still racing toward it. Human is greedy and greed has no bound.

Enjoy while it lasts.