Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far

Re:Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I hav... by pluralmonad on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @01:57PM (#46530840)

I'm not familiar with any form of intelligence that does not suffer from a bloated context. If you want to try and improve your workflow, a good place to start is using sub-agents so individual task implementations do not fill up your top level agents context. I used to regularly have to compact and clear, but since using sub-agents for most direct tasks, I hardly do anymore.

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Re:Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I hav... by troupo on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @03:52PM (#46532512)

1. It's a workaround for context limitations

2. It's the same workarounds we've been doing forever

3. It's indistinguishable from "clear context and re-feed the entire world of relevant info from scratch" we've had forever, just slightly more automated

That's why I don't understand all the "it's new tier" etc. It's all the same issues with all the same workarounds.

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