I've found compactation kills the whole thing. Important debug steps completely missing and the AI loops back round thinking it's found a solution when we've already done that step.

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s900mhz 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I find it useful to make Claude track the debugging session with a markdown file. It’s like a persistent memory for a long session over many context windows.

Or make a subagent do the debugging and let the main agent orchestrate it over many subagent sessions.

	▲	roygbiv2 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah I use a markdown to put progress in. It gets kinda long and convoluted a manual intervention is required every so often. Works though.

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garciasn 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

For me, Claude was like that until about 2m ago. Now it rarely gets dumb after compaction like it did before.

	▲	8note 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		oh, ive found that something about compaction has been dropping everything that might be useful. exact opposite experience

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myrak 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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