Compacting a compacted LLM context: engineers' silent pain
nrehiew_ · x · 2026-10-20
A developer laments that compacting an already-compacted LLM context is the enemy — each round of context compaction builds on a lossy summary, compounding information loss. A familiar pain for long-running agent and coding-assistant users.
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