A practical fix for long-chat degradation: compress progress into a Markdown summary
emollick · x · 2026-08-04
The post agrees that long context can degrade chats, but argues you should not ask the AI to diagnose that problem because its self-knowledge is poor.
The suggested workflow is to compact the work so far by asking for a Markdown summary, then start a fresh chat using that summary as context. The practical advice is to reset and compress rather than keep extending a deteriorating conversation.
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