Ross Mike: LLM coding agent performance degrades above 50% context limit
Ross Mike · Claude Code Clearly Explained (and how to use it) · Jan 19, 2026 · at 26:04
Ross Mike advises developers on context window management when using AI coding tools like Claude Code.
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“I generally wouldn't go over 50%, meaning like the anthropic model Opus 4.5 has a 200,000 token context limit. The moment, in my opinion, you've got over a 100,000 tokens, meaning you're using the same session. It starts to sort of deteriorate. That's when you have people, Greg, who say, oh, like I started off good, but it started going bad. That's because you've filled it with so much context.”
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