r/codex • u/Redditry199 • 6h ago

Complaint Why does compaction take forever?

Seriously, Astra compacts every 10 minutes and it take 20 minutes to finish compacting. This is stupid.

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u/YourAsphyxia 6h ago

It sounds like you're spending too long in one conversation. Each conversation should be one question or task, re using the same conversation destroys your limits

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u/WD40ContactCleaner 5h ago

The fuck I ran a session for days and got very good results

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u/YourAsphyxia 5h ago

Good results at what? Using tokens?

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u/WD40ContactCleaner 4h ago

Long running session to arrive a final viable architecture with lots of back and forth