Why I Shrunk Claude Code’s Context Window Back to 200k
The 1M context window in Claude Code sounds like an upgrade. In practice, constraining it to 200k with early compaction produces better results and lower costs.
Context rot is the measurable performance degradation LLMs experience as input length increases. Chroma tested 18 frontier models and found every one gets...
The 1M context window in Claude Code sounds like an upgrade. In practice, constraining it to 200k with early compaction produces better results and lower costs.