Your Chat History Is Eating the Context Window — Fix It With a Reducer
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Turn nine of a support chat feels fine. Turn ninety is a different animal. Every request resends the system prompt, three agent loops of tool noise, the user's third restatement of the same bug, and yesterday's dark-mode tangent. The model does not mind. Your invoice does — and attention quality us…
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- 2026-10-15 11:54 · DEV Community — AI
Your Chat History Is Eating the Context Window — Fix It With a Reducer