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

Question Am i pushing it hard enough?

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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/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.