"Projects changed my Claude usage more than any model upgrade": context beats prompting

Just-Let269 · reddit · 2026-09-21

A Reddit user reflects that after chasing better prompts and newer models, the single biggest jump in Claude's usefulness came from organizing work into Projects with proper persistent context.

Once background, preferences, and relevant files lived in one place, answers got sharper without re-explaining each conversation. His takeaway: "the model was never really the bottleneck, my setup was."

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