I am a max subscriber for claude.ai using their browser UI and claude desktop ai app, not a API user, claude code user. In the last week I have come across every session of mine not lasting more than an hour or so. Have any of you come across this? Is this something new? Reaching out to their help i...
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I have never had any of these problems using codex. Codex just works. on like the cheapest organization plan, I've never hit any limits, ever. Meanwhile I go on hackernews every day and I see you people talking about claude like its 1943 and you're frustrated that your cheese rations have been cut again.
By czk 2026-01-221:56 claude has half the context window size of codex and blows through a good percentage of it right off the bat by injecting a system prompt the size of don quixote
By pragmaticalien8 2026-01-220:57 I have been on Max + 20 plan for over 6 months without any issues that is why I’m wondering if this is something new.
By moomoo11 2026-01-226:22 Claude code sucks. Only noobs and X stans push it imo.
They mention specifically fixing this in 2.1.14:
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/CHANGELO...
> Fixed a regression where the context window blocking limit was calculated too aggressively, blocking users at ~65% context usage instead of the intended ~98%
By pragmaticalien8 2026-01-221:51 i think it is happing way more quicker than ~65%, more like ~20% in my case. My sessions used to last me one week before, now 1 hour of plain back and forth stops the discussion without a single compact, no errors.
By moomoo11 2026-01-226:21 I stopped using Anthropic when they pulled a shitty fast one on Max users by limiting Opus usage and forcing people to use sonnet.
I’m happy with Codex 5.2 Extra high reasoning. It works imo way better, doesn’t bug out (CC has so many bugs), and I barely ever go below 40% weekly usage
