alt.hn

1/21/2026 at 5:53:49 PM

Tell HN: Claude session limits getting small

by pragmaticalien8

1/21/2026 at 10:30:51 PM

I have never had any of these problems using codex. Codex just works. on like the cheapest organization plan, I've never hit any limits, ever. Meanwhile I go on hackernews every day and I see you people talking about claude like its 1943 and you're frustrated that your cheese rations have been cut again.

by _345

1/22/2026 at 1:56:09 AM

claude has half the context window size of codex and blows through a good percentage of it right off the bat by injecting a system prompt the size of don quixote

by czk

1/22/2026 at 12:57:55 AM

I have been on Max + 20 plan for over 6 months without any issues that is why I’m wondering if this is something new.

by pragmaticalien8

1/22/2026 at 6:22:39 AM

Claude code sucks. Only noobs and X stans push it imo.

by moomoo11

1/22/2026 at 1:09:22 AM

They mention specifically fixing this in 2.1.14:

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/CHANGELO...

> Fixed a regression where the context window blocking limit was calculated too aggressively, blocking users at ~65% context usage instead of the intended ~98%

by tristanc

1/22/2026 at 1:51:53 AM

i think it is happing way more quicker than ~65%, more like ~20% in my case. My sessions used to last me one week before, now 1 hour of plain back and forth stops the discussion without a single compact, no errors.

by pragmaticalien8

1/22/2026 at 6:21:54 AM

I stopped using Anthropic when they pulled a shitty fast one on Max users by limiting Opus usage and forcing people to use sonnet.

I’m happy with Codex 5.2 Extra high reasoning. It works imo way better, doesn’t bug out (CC has so many bugs), and I barely ever go below 40% weekly usage

by moomoo11

1/22/2026 at 5:42:55 AM

I have a few codes pro keys, in heavy refactoring on a large codebase I can blow through one account's weekly limit in a day. Its no longer about the limit though - a full day for $20ish is awesome - it is imo just better at everything than claude was.

by porksoda

1/21/2026 at 11:00:35 PM

Is it project-unrelated, that you ran into limits so quickly? If it's just in some repos, it might be a bloated claude.md. Looking forward reading from you, if you get some helpful insights

by lschueller

1/22/2026 at 12:56:12 AM

It is all related, it happens in the middle of a debug session where it just stops responding with no error message and my last message remains in the chat window. i have to then start a new session and explain the context of pervious session and Claud goes on to ask for more context from the code and then by the time I get to any new code the session does what i explained above. i don’t allow Cluade to access my code directly its only via chat ui interaction. My usage data in the settings shows I have used less than 4% of alloted tokens

by pragmaticalien8

1/22/2026 at 11:03:32 PM

Ok. This isn't something I experienced, but it sounds strange. Are you using the Claude desktop client (electron app)? This thing is quite buggy and unreliable.. Or is the described behaviour in claude.ai browser input existent as well?

by lschueller

1/21/2026 at 6:18:53 PM

I’ve noticed the same thing, thought it was just me. Wonder if ralph wiggum would help.

by elemdos

1/21/2026 at 6:36:10 PM

Do you mean context size before compacting?

by dostick

1/22/2026 at 1:44:17 AM

Yes, it never compacts anymore, just stops responding in the middle of a discussion. i thought it was one off but after 7 sessions of the same behavior it became very frustrating.

by pragmaticalien8

1/22/2026 at 1:51:48 PM

Just sounds like a bug. Try older version of CC.

by conception

1/24/2026 at 1:55:25 PM

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by masardigital