Engineers revisit Claude Code auto-compact: does quality still degrade past 250k-400k tokens?
astralz1 · reddit · 2026-10-09
A Reddit thread asks software engineers whether the old rule of thumb still holds: a year ago it was customary to force Claude Code's auto-compact around 250k-400k tokens of context, beyond which many saw significant output quality degradation. The poster wants current data points on what thresholds people use today.
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