> unattended overnight claude opus session
yes, exactly
yes, exactly
These are often my best sessions - they're unattended overnight, because by then we have the specification figured out, and I can just leave Claude to build out the rest, making good choices if it does find gaps in the spec. I regularly go to sleep & wake up to an entirely new application completed. Claude never uses compacting in my sessions.
I haven't used GPT as much as I should have, so I'm prepared to be incorrect & out of date. It just intuitively feels like I wouldn't get the same from a 275K context window - maybe it uses lots of subagents? Even Deepseek & GLM have 1 Million context windows now, so it "feels" strange for people to actually prefer the 275K window. But that's just my intuition.
if you talk about them (in which you lean on an LLM as a sort-of independent employee) and conservative, chunk-based usage (in which you use the LLM as more of an extension of yourself), you're comparing apples to oranges
a predefined spec obviously reduces that gap but how much is highly dependent on the level of detail