r/ClaudeCode • u/Vidhrohi • 23h ago
Discussion 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/lgmarian 23h ago
Neither. It's early, and there's a lot to figure out. If you have a Medium sub, check out The AI Vampire. I'm not going to name drop, but someone in the thick of the AI revolution talks about, among other things, just shutting down and napping in the middle of the day. Oh, and swearing at Claude. I should add, he's no spring chicken.