Context management is still early: correctness, latency and cost trade off
blaizedsouza · x · 2026-11-07
mstockton comments that context management has many competing approaches and we're still very early — the "right" approach will be literally context-dependent, with multiple measurement dimensions: correctness, latency, cost?
He likes the idea of fresh context windows built from bits of previous ones via retrieval, noting it resembles Recursive Language Models and that foundation model harnesses already do this when nudged. Links to deeper reads from dbreunig and trq212 on context workflow patterns.
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