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When using max effort, I run into context compaction quite a lot. I haven't seen any increase in context window size at all over the past half year (stuck at 1M).

Are the frontier labs even working on this problem?

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Why would you use max? It's usually unnecessary and even prone to overthinking. In my experience, since Opus 5 the medium/high is usually enough (until 4.8 I used xhigh, but never max). Even low is quite usable these days..

actually I meant to say xhigh.

even at xhigh I get context compaction quite a bit.

yeah, i didn't notice this on 5

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