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Context management matters more to me now than writing the perfect prompt

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I used to think better prompt = better result. Now I think a lot of long agent sessions go bad because the context turns into a junk drawer. Old decisions, dead paths, huge logs, repeated instructions, stuff that isn't even relevant anymore. I get better results when I stop and compact it into curr…

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  1. 2026-08-20 20:58 · r/PromptEngineering
    Context management matters more to me now than writing the perfect prompt

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