I was surprised the usage issue wasn't mentioned here before this based on my searching on hn.algolia.

I'm on pro. Two days ago, 100% 5 hour was using 25% of my weekly. Today, 100% 5 hour is like 13% so something was fixed.

bombcar an hour ago | parent | next [-]

They very aggressively compact when the cache is about to expire, which saves a ton of tokens, the equivalent of doing a handoff at 25% or less.

I assume that is only if compact is turned on? I never use compaction.

	▲	SyneRyder 34 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		They enabled it for everyone in a recent Claude Code update, but you can turn it off (I did). I am definitely getting frustrated with a lot of the changes they keep making in Claude Code. It's one thing to find settings have changed during your next interactive session, it's another when it changes how overnight unattended sessions behave. I really should be spending more time building my own harness again.
	▲	Matticus_Rex 31 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Check your idleCompaction line in /config to make sure it's off -- several times they've toggled new features on by default for me. This one isn't in the VS Code extension so I don't know if it shipped default-on.

This is an A/B test

	▲	grim_io an hour ago \| parent [-]
		More likely it depends on the overall load of the infrastructure.