Letting LLMs edit their own context risks losing the original task, researcher warns
ryanorban · x · 2026-10-01
Nat Lambert shows LLMs can directly edit their own context for better long-horizon memory and FLOP-efficient adaptation. Ryan Orban pushes back: the hard part isn't rewriting context but staying anchored to the original task — an agent can discard evidence that would reveal it's off course, then reason from its own edited history. Better benchmark scores at lower compute don't prove goal preservation, and defenses are left to future work.
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