Claude Opus 5 works okay only if you set autocompact to 200k tokens, dev reports
bclavie · x · 2026-08-26
@bclavie shares hands-on notes on Claude Opus 5: still quite limited and requiring much more deliberate prompting, but relatively workable if you set autocompact to 200k tokens. Beyond that, it feels context-rotted to an extent even early-2025 models wouldn't hit.
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