Solomon exhausted 95% of a Claude Max session allowance. The agents were not repeating identical work. They were keeping long conversations alive across hundreds of tool calls, so Claude repeatedly processed the growing history. This post measures the waste and proposes bounded sessions with compact handoffs.
In 2022 I swapped the cryptographic library under DynamoDB’s TLS termination from OpenSSL 1.0.2 to AWS-LC and deployed it to every AWS region with zero downtime, on a database serving hundreds of billions of requests an hour. Median handshake time dropped 12–35% by region, and FIPS endpoints dropped as much as 80%. This is the internal ops-win announcement rewritten for the public, including what the integration required — modifying Nginx source against a new crypto API, a legacy build system, Amazon’s deployment machinery, and cryptographic correctness requirements — and the two problems the rollout surfaced.