When is a Claude Code session too long? One 3-hour spiral reignites the context debate
Additional-Buy-2562 · reddit · 2026-10-16
- A dev planned a 20-minute test fix but the Claude Code session snowballed into 3 hours touching auth, a migration, and a forgotten helper file — mostly working by the end, but the transcript was full of dead ends and reverts.
- The dilemma: keep going (model knows everything, half useless) or restart fresh (clean but loses useful memory).
- The author explored session-history tools like agentgit to jump back to earlier points, prompting community discussion on when to deliberately restart agent sessions.
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