Quadrupling my agent's context budget bought 3x the facts, not 4x
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I ran one subject through a context assembler at three different token budgets and wrote down what came back. 200 tokens returned 2 memories. 500 returned 4. 800 returned 6. That is a 4x spend for 3x the facts. It is the most useful number I have for sizing an agent's memory budget, and I almost ne…
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- 2026-09-14 11:57 · DEV Community — AI
Quadrupling my agent's context budget bought 3x the facts, not 4x