How do you manage long-term memory beyond the context window?
either_T_or_F · reddit · 2026-11-07
A Reddit thread on handling conversations that exceed the context window (e.g., co-writing a novel): external knowledge base with chapter summaries + retrieval is the common approach, but the poster questions its reliability — continuous summarization is lossy compression, and an insignificant detail from chapter 3 may become crucial in chapter 40. Keeping full history in a database shifts the problem to deciding what to retrieve. Asking how practitioners actually solve long-conversation consistency.
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