Letta Founder: Agents Still Can't Use Tools or Write Files During Context Compaction
lateinteraction · x · 2026-09-15
lateinteraction (Letta/MemGPT) points out that as of Sept 2026, agents can't use tools or write to files during context compaction — "it's really just a summarization prompt" — highlighting how crude mainstream agent memory management still is.
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