Long-Context Claude Strategies for Code and Document Workloads (ANSWERED)
TL;DR — Quick Answer
Use hierarchical summarization, cache stable prefixes (claude-004), retrieve-then-place only relevant sections, chunk with map-reduce for very large corpora, and eval needle-in-haystack on your data — long context ≠ perfect attention.
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How do you effectively use Claude's long context window without wasting tokens or losing recall?
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