points by Silagi 16 hours ago | 0 comments
Can I ask why? The modern models deal with compaction remarkably well, to the point where I dropped my autocompact from 1M to 350k. I've seen no change in efficacy and a reduced usage rate.
[–] bombcar 15 hours ago
For certain workloads compaction is great, for others you're better off manually doing a /handoff (or a similar skill you write yourself to keep what you need, toss what you don't; Claude is not always good at figuring it out).
Read your memory.md to see what Claude thinks is very important.
[–] Silagi 15 hours ago
That was my experience in the Opus 4.5 - 4.7 era, but recently it's been on the nose with what I want it to carry over, or close enough that a full handoff would be more expensive than just letting it find what it needs again.
I'm mostly working on moderately sized rust codebases (600k~ lines) with reasonably long running tasks. The only time I intentionally do a handoff is if the next goal is in an entirely different section of the code, or I let the session cache expire, or I'm working with 6.1 Sol for more than a few hours, which admittedly has some horrendous context drift compared to Opus.
Maybe things are better now. It's been a while since I've compacted a conversation.