Dev Predicts Context Compaction Will Be Replaced by Agentic Session-History Retrieval
mayfer · x · 2026-09-03
Developer mayfer predicts context compaction will be replaced by a new paradigm: each turn issues a completely fresh request, and the agent agenticly reads relevant parts of session history via old-school greps, summary line items, and vector search, instead of pre-compressing the context.
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