Claude $200 Max user struggles with usage burn from long chats and broken memory across sessions
Appropriate-Tie-6524 · reddit · 2026-10-24
A $200 Max subscriber says much of their usage burn comes from mid-level chats kept alive too long. They maintain separate project chats for trading bots, but continuing old chats consumes far more usage than restarting — and restarted chats lose all context even when the old chat prepares a handoff summary.
They're asking the community for a workable pattern: how to start fresh chats while preserving solid memory of prior work. The thread highlights a common pain point around long-context billing and the lack of good cross-session memory tooling.
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