Short vs long context windows for coding agents
mrdrozdov · x · 2026-08-31
Discusses the trade-off between short and long context windows for coding agents. Long windows are nice for medium sessions to avoid compaction, but for massive sessions (10M+ tokens), frequent compaction seems to help stay the course.
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