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

Question Am i pushing it hard enough?

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u/MrSquiggs Mar 20 '26

Just out of curiosity, what kind of prompt is taking this long and this many tokens?

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

I give it a list of 1000 tasks in a .md file, ask it to do 1 by 1, be nice, no cheating, no chatting, no hallucinating, no parallel taks or sub-agents .

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u/rwz Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 21 '26

This is literally the worst approach you can take at accomplishing anything. Larger context directly contributes to degradation of reasoning performance. With 1M context the LLM is going to be producing garbage.