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Re:Getting Good Results from Claude Code by felixgallo on Friday August 08, 2025 @11:14AM (#44837999)
frequently your session/context may drop (e.g. claude crashes, or your internet dies, or your computer restarts, etc.). Claude does best when it can recover the context and understand the current situation from clear documentation, rather than trying to reverse engineer intent and structure from an existing code base. Also, the human frequently does read the code docs as there may be places where Claude gets stuck or doesn't do what you want, but a human can reason their way into success and unstick the obstacle.
Re:Getting Good Results from Claude Code by Der_Einzige on Friday August 08, 2025 @12:00PM (#44838546)
I promise you that token context rot is worse than the gains from added natural language explanations
Re:Getting Good Results from Claude Code by felixgallo on Friday August 08, 2025 @12:21PM (#44838792)
This hasn't been my experience.
Re:Getting Good Results from Claude Code by alwillis on Friday August 08, 2025 @01:12PM (#44839381)
Keep in mind each Claude subagent gets its own context.
Re:Getting Good Results from Claude Code by manwe150 on Friday August 08, 2025 @11:46AM (#44838393)
From Claude -r you can resume any conversation at any previous point, so there isn’t a way to lose context that way. As opposed to compact, which I find makes it act brain dead afterwards for a while
Re:Getting Good Results from Claude Code by r_murphey on Friday August 08, 2025 @12:37PM (#44838995)
Oh God yes, I wish there were better tools to help one curate and condense a context when one finds that sweet spot where it's writing great code.