Surviving the 200k-Token Lobotomy: How Unix init.d and 'Memento' Made My AI Coding Agent Immune to Context Compaction
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Why relying on your IDE's automatic context summarizer is a trap—and how 1980s Unix boot scripts give autonomous agents an indestructible memory. "Needs a system, right? Take notes. Specific notes... You can't trust a memory." — Leonard Shelby , Memento (2000) 1. The 200k-Token Lobotomy: The Silent…
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Surviving the 200k-Token Lobotomy: How Unix init.d and 'Memento' Made My AI Coding Agent Immune to Context Compaction