After 16 hours and 21 compactions, a developer still blames context rot
vxnuaj · x · 2026-07-26
The same developer follows up after 16 hours and 21 compactions, saying they had completely forgotten about context rot. It reads like a postmortem of long-running AI coding sessions: lots of effort, but the context still decays.
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