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Claude Code Context Is Like a Fridge - Put Only Perishable Items in It
Community description: The main conversation is your fridge, and space is finite. Learn when to keep work in the main conversation and when to move it to a subagent, a second session, or a headless loop.
Dev.to | Oct 6, 2026 | Igor Irianto
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The main conversation is where you and Claude talk. Claude reviewing code it just wrote in the same session is like me proofreading my own essay. The Claude Code docs say the same: a fresh context improves code review, since Claude won't be biased toward code it just wrote.
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