Theo tears apart Jev's 'instant compaction': line-by-line context trimming misunderstands the fundamentals
AccBalanced · x · 2026-09-18
Quoting a promo post that touts Typesafe AI's Jev for "instant compaction" (scoring every tool call and dropping irrelevant ones instead of summarizing), Theo breaks down why the approach is flawed: compaction exists to refocus the agent when context grows too long, not to shrink it constantly; and the 32k-token model decides line-by-line without seeing prior thread context or even the tool call results. Randomly deleting this information will leave the model blind to what happened.
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