Codex autocompaction gets stuck: one steer and 10 million tokens later it's still parroting stale state
Aryvyo · x · 2026-10-14
A developer's funny complaint about Codex's autocompaction: it works great until you steer it once — then 10 million tokens later it's still going on about "the server hasn't been touched, like you requested." A vivid illustration of how context compaction clashes with user steering in long agent sessions.
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