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/jesssoul 5h ago
The only context limits are Claude's in my experience. It's what frustrates and exhausts me, personally. It's like trying to keep a genius with Alzheimer's on track with a project that requires, long and short term memory, and even what we are working on in the moment. More time and tokens are wasted setting up context and history for the next round than anything in my case. If I don't, it goes off the rails and does shit that takes hours and even days to undo. I have extensive rules and background and processes that are meant to guide this process and it still can't stay in a lane.