The smartphone analogy hits hard. I see this pattern everywhere in AI adoption - people treat transformative tools as glorified autocomplete. The session refresh tip is especially valuable. I've watched teams waste days debugging issues that stemmed from context drift they didn't even know was happening.
You are right that Claude now auto-compacts context, so you do not need to run /compact for normal, short sessions. Manual compaction is still useful on long or complex tasks though, because it lets you choose the timing and what to preserve instead of having auto-compact kick in mid-task and potentially blur important details.
The smartphone analogy hits hard. I see this pattern everywhere in AI adoption - people treat transformative tools as glorified autocomplete. The session refresh tip is especially valuable. I've watched teams waste days debugging issues that stemmed from context drift they didn't even know was happening.
Thanks for your feedback. I truly agree with that :)
Great tips. Thanks for sharing. But I was reading context compaction is now automatic in Claude so maybe not required to be done manually?
You are right that Claude now auto-compacts context, so you do not need to run /compact for normal, short sessions. Manual compaction is still useful on long or complex tasks though, because it lets you choose the timing and what to preserve instead of having auto-compact kick in mid-task and potentially blur important details.