Does Claude get dumber the longer a chat runs?
A non-technical user asks why long Claude chats start forgetting earlier details and feeling slower. The short answer is context pressure: as a conversation grows, older details get squeezed out or summarized away, and every reply re-reads the whole history, which also raises usage. The practical fix is starting a fresh chat once a conversation gets long and carrying over a short summary of key decisions instead of the full transcript.