TL;DR — Long Claude Code conversations slow down because the context window fills up. Use /clear when starting a brand new task, and /compact when you want to keep working on the same task but free up memory. Master this rule and your Pro plan will go 2x further. Welcome back to Day 3 of my "10 Days of Claude Code" series! 🚀 If you missed the earlier days: 📌 Day 1 — How /init instantly understands your entire project 📌 Day 2 — /review and /ask for instant code audits Today we're solving a problem every Claude Code user faces but most don't know how to fix. 😩 The Problem Nobody Talks About You start a Claude Code session in VS Code. Everything is fast and crisp. You build a feature, fix a bug, refactor some code. Then 30 minutes in... ⏳ Replies become slower 💸 Tokens deplete faster 🤔 Claude starts giving slightly off answers 😤 You're getting frustrated What's happening? Every message you send adds to Claude's context window .…