dan on X: "context window won’t be “solved” as long as attention is quadratic and presumably Suhail is thinking about the compaction problem as it occurs in long running agents like claude code but this is downstream from an architectural problem with standard agent implementations https://t.co/17b73nWevO" / X

To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts 1 Post Reply See new posts Conversation dan @irl_danB context window won’t be “solved” as long as attention is quadratic and presumably Suhail is thinking about the compaction problem as it occurs in long running agents like claude code but this is downstream from an architectural problem with standard agent implementations (claude code among them) that use a linear “chat-like” history we all work through coding tasks linearly, but any seasoned software engineer’s mental model of their progress looks more like a call stack: pushing tasks on and popping them off when complete when the claude code harness organizes the context more like a call stack (think flame graph) than a linear chat log, compaction will not even be necessary in many cases and less lossy in the cases where it is for the familiar, think: loom Quote Suhail @Suhail · Dec 22 Context window / compaction is totally broken. Must be solved in 2026.

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