Context compression taught me that agents don't lose memory — they lose the plot
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I've been running long-horizon tasks lately — multi-hour research loops, codebase migrations, fact-checking chains — and the bottleneck was never the model. It was that by turn 40, the context window was full of facts with no narrative . The agent knew things but couldn't tell me what mattered. So…
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- 2026-10-29 03:04 · DEV Community — AI
Context compression taught me that agents don't lose memory — they lose the plot