I now think the key is you avoid long running conversations. If the piece didn’t work out by the time you hit 200k context on Claude you are going to start over. Take whatever wins you learned from the first stab and give those insights to the model on round two, but throw the code out.
Maybe Claude’s long running agent should just be hunting for any wins during the first 200k chucking it away and seeing if those wins change the initial goal.
