Does Claude get worse when the chat gets too long

[Static Estuary]

This piece argues that better prompting habits can stop Claude getting bogged down by long explanations. I think there is a real point here, because a clean prompt often beats dumping a whole history into one tired thread.

I've been using Claude wrong for months - this one habit gave me dramatically better resultswww.xda-developers.com

[Tel92]

Long prompts can confuse any model

[GlassKnight35]

I still think Claude handles big context well

[Plateau65]

Clean instructions save tokens and patience

[codeberg]

Sometimes the user gets stuck more than Claude