> And any attempt at computer use has fallen by the wayside.

You're totally right! I mean, aside from Anthropic launching "Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work" 5 days ago. :)

https://claude.com/blog/cowork-research-preview

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46593022

More to the point though, you should be using Agents in Claude Code to limit context pollution. Agents run with their own context, and then only return salient details. Eg, I have an Agent to run "make" and return the return status and just the first error message if there is one. This means the hundreds/thousands of lines of compilation don't pollute the main Claude Code context, letting me get more builds in before I run out of context there.