The original title is 11 words: "Coding Agents Don't Need Bigger Context Windows — They Need a Context Compiler"

Short summary

Coding agents fail when they treat prompt construction as retrieval — gathering more files and hoping the model sorts it out. As context grows, irrelevant code competes for attention and agents degrade their own memory mid-task. The author proposes treating prompt construction like a compiler that actively decides what to keep, reduce, or discard.

• •Coding agents degrade when context windows fill with irrelevant code
• •Forgetting is often degraded context, not a model limitation
• •Proposed solution: a context compiler that curates what enters the prompt

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