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Re:Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude C... by 0x696C6961 on Monday January 26, 2026 @11:01AM (#46767276)
I wish there was a feature to say "you must re-read X" after each compaction.
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Re:Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude C... by nickreese on Monday January 26, 2026 @11:01AM (#46767285)
Some people use hooks for that. I just avoid CC and use Codex.
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Re:Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude C... by philipp-gayret on Monday January 26, 2026 @01:03PM (#46769184)
There's no PostCompact hook unfortunately. You could try with PreCompact and giving back a message saying it's super duper important to re-read X, and hope that survives the compacting.
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Re:Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude C... by root_axis on Monday January 26, 2026 @02:35PM (#46770408)
What would it even mean to "re-read after a compaction"?
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Re:Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude C... by esafak on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @12:20AM (#46775842)
To enter a file into the context after losing it through compaction.
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Re:Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude C... by taberiand on Monday January 26, 2026 @05:58PM (#46772892)
Getting the context full to the point of compaction probably means you're already dealing with a severely degraded model, the more effective approach is to work in chunks that don't come close to filling the context window
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Re:Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude C... by 0x696C6961 on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @08:01AM (#46870463)
The problem is that I'm not always using it interactively. I'll give it something that I think is going to be a simple task and it turns out to be complex. It overruns the context, compacts, and the starts doing dumb things.
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Re:Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude C... by esafak on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @12:19AM (#46775834)
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/3537 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/14258
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