I just finished my workday, 8hrs with Claude Code. No single task took more than 20 minutes total. Cleared context after each task and asked it to summarize for itself the previous task before I cleared context. If I ran this as a continuous 8hr task it would have died after 35-ish minutes. Just know the limitations (like with any other tool) and you’ll be good :)
I always find it wild that none of these tools use VCS - completed logical unit of work, make a commit, drop entire context related to that commit, while referencing said commit, continue onto the next stage, rinse and repeat.
Claud always misunderstands how API exported by my service works and every compaction it forgets all over and commits "oh api has changed since last time I've used, let me use different query parameters", my brother Christ nothing has changed, and you are the one who made this API.
Yes, I can, and I do, I'm pointing out that compressing an entire conversation history into a single message is so lossy that I might as well start a new session.
Yes, I can also tell any agent to commit more often, but that's again not what I'm saying. I'm saying version control can be integrated way deeper into agent workflow.
Idk I had cursor/claude untangle and commit to two separate logical branches yesterday from a bunch of random working copy changes that I had made. You can prompt it to use git commands and it works well enough in my experience.
