The fact that there still isn't a way to track how close you are to reaching max length for a chat before it just completely locks you out is insane. No way to have it write a final handoff / compact save-file for the next chat. I reach that limit every ~2 days of serious work.

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1. 2026-09-16 09:09 · r/ChatGPT
   The fact that there still isn't a way to track how close you are to reaching max length for a chat before it just completely locks you out is insane. No way to have it write a final handoff / compact save-file for the next chat. I reach that limit every ~2 days of serious work.