Devs call to abolish context compaction: agent engineering debate heats up
sull · x · 2026-09-05
The author of badlogic tweeted "abolish all compaction," with ex-Twitter engineer Ed Spencer (sull) adding that "compaction was always a punt." The exchange targets a core design question in coding agents — compress old context vs. rethink the approach entirely — and is turning into a substantive agent-engineering debate.
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