Agentic Context Management: Memory and Cost as Architecture Problems

Re:Agentic Context Management: Memory and Cost as Architectu... by taneq on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @06:18AM (#49446533)

It goes for all spheres of life, full stop. I’m not sure if agents struggle with this because they learned it from humans, or if they struggle with it because it’s a universally challenging problem, but it’s something we share with them.

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Re:Agentic Context Management: Memory and Cost as Architectu... by ShinyLeftPad on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @06:28AM (#49446623)

The comment highlighted how LLMs exacerbate the issue by entrenching the preexisting issues.

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Re:Agentic Context Management: Memory and Cost as Architectu... by Terretta on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @07:41AM (#49447273)

Indeed, and reply to comment seemed a "yes and" -- As with humans.

It's curious how much of these could apply to either:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstructive_memory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misinformation_effect

And many mechanisms exacerbate issues by entrenching preexisting issues.

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Re:Agentic Context Management: Memory and Cost as Architectu... by ShinyLeftPad on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @09:16AM (#49448609)

I don't understand. The comment said if humans want to change the route, this tech makes it more difficult. Human inertia is X, inertia with this tech is X ^ Y. The Y is the issue being discussed.

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Re:Agentic Context Management: Memory and Cost as Architectu... by Schlagbohrer on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @08:51AM (#49448193)

"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever wrought"

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Re:Agentic Context Management: Memory and Cost as Architectu... by Terr_ on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @01:43PM (#49453010)

You full-stopped too soon: It may happen everywhere, but it doesn't happen the same way everywhere or for the same reasons.

LLMs will create different kinds of corruption than humans, because the underlying mechanisms are different. Our ability to manage type of corruption will depend on how whether they can be predicted by math or intuition.

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Re:Agentic Context Management: Memory and Cost as Architectu... by taneq on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @10:50PM (#49458976)

You’re kind of begging the question that I asked after the full stop. I was wondering how much the underlying mechanism matters if it’s modelling the same environment to a similar level of effectiveness.

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