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Re:Notes on gotchas while migrating 35kb preprompts from Opu... by JamesSwift on Monday September 14, 2026 @12:20PM (#49699472)
> How do you all keep your context so low? Complex tasks just balloon it in my experience.

By breaking the problem into discrete steps and aggressively restarting the prompt from the current state after completion of said steps

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Re:Notes on gotchas while migrating 35kb preprompts from Opu... by embedding-shape on Monday September 14, 2026 @12:31PM (#49699635)
AKA "divide and conquer", how we programmers been fighting ever bigger and more complex problems since probably forever.
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