I stopped letting Claude Code read my whole project, and my usage limit suddenly lasted all day
www.makeuseof.com/stopped-claude-code-read-my-whole-project-usage-limit-lasted-all-day/
- Claude Code carries everything it has already read. The follow-up questions cost more than the first one
- Searching first keeps the context window small. One file beats reading the whole project
- Two commands show where your limit goes. Check them before a session gets heavy
- My usage limit lasts almost all day now. The limit stayed the same, but the context shrank