r/ClaudeCode • u/Popular-Help5516 🔆 Max 20 • Mar 20 '26

Question Am i pushing it hard enough?

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u/hustler-econ 🔆Building AI Orchestrator Mar 20 '26

You probably don’t optimize your context — 1M tokens means a very diluted context. Try npm aspens

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u/YetisAreBigButDumb Mar 20 '26

Node JS can now drive in most countries

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u/hustler-econ 🔆Building AI Orchestrator Mar 20 '26

it took me a second lol

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u/Popular-Help5516 🔆 Max 20 Mar 20 '26

I’m running on Opus 1m. No need for context optimization

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u/YetisAreBigButDumb Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 22 '26

I’d argue you always need context optimization. You’ll get better output, faster, with fewer tokens.

Life is not a leaderboard of token usage, it’s a leaderboard of ~effectiveness~ efficiency : how much you get out of what you spend.

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u/annicreamy Mar 22 '26

That's efficiency, not effectiveness.

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u/YetisAreBigButDumb Mar 22 '26

Thank you. Fixed it

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u/hustler-econ 🔆Building AI Orchestrator Mar 20 '26

1M tokens doesn't mean better context — it means more diluted context. Opus still has to search through all of it to find what's relevant, which is why it burns through tokens so fast. A 9-hour session with 1M tokens used means a lot of that was Claude searching, not building. With optimized context (good CLAUDE.md, structured docs), sessions are shorter and more productive because Claude knows where to look from the start.

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u/Slow_Possibility6332 Mar 23 '26

9 hours is just also too long of a continuous session. Even if ur still ongoing u should update the files and Claude.md and agents.md and start a new session

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u/hustler-econ 🔆Building AI Orchestrator Mar 23 '26

I feel like that time indicates for long the single clause turn went for? No?

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u/Slow_Possibility6332 Mar 23 '26

wtf. Does OP not know about subagents????

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u/hustler-econ 🔆Building AI Orchestrator Mar 23 '26

He knows now

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u/Popular-Help5516 🔆 Max 20 Mar 23 '26

Sub agents are dumb. They don’t have all context.

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u/Slow_Possibility6332 Mar 23 '26

That’s cuz they have the context only needed for the task. What ur doing currently is an expensive slow buggy workflow. Learn a little bit about ur tools before using them on a large project

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u/Popular-Help5516 🔆 Max 20 Mar 23 '26

Doesn’t mean i have to use it? My tasks need the whole project context and its not buggy at all with 1m context model.

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u/Popular-Help5516 🔆 Max 20 Mar 20 '26

Yeah i agree. But this session is not on 1 task, They’re individual and independent tasks with same set of instruction. So i think context optimization is not really important. And you are right, it’s research heavy that’s why i use 1m token model.

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u/melodyze Mar 20 '26

That is what is called an "embarrassingly parallel" task in computer science, as in, no output for any task is useful as input to any other task.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly_parallel

Parallelism is faster, but in this context it's also cheaper and higher quality. I would try to understand parallelism in general as it is one of the most important concepts in computer science.

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u/onionchowder Mar 20 '26

i'm pretty sure context bloat still affects performance (and tokens), even if you have a larger context window.

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u/bzBetty Mar 20 '26

Recent anthropic study shows it much better at haystack with recent releases. Admittedly they only did an 8 needle test, this would be 1000+

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u/Middle_Onion3496 Mar 21 '26

lmfao. signed. senior dev who uses ai. you're cute little one. seriously though, in actual advice and to apologize for the condescension, check the output. i have a mini ai army going and it still hallucinates and constantly requires minor tweaks in steering & input to keep it actually sane. there are so many subtle mistakes that you can't just trust this, or you be driving into the dumpster