Comment by zingar

I have the same experience of reversing intentional steps I've made, but with Claude Code. I find that committing a change that I want to version control seems to stop that behaviour.

Long context as disadvantage is pretty well discussed, and agent-native compaction has been inferior to having it intentionally build the documentation that I want it to use. So far this has been my LLM-coding superpower. There are also a few products whose entire purpose is to provide structure that overcomes compaction shortcomings.

When Geoff Huntley said that Claude Code's "Ralph loop" didn't meet his standards ("this aint it") the major bone of contention as far as I can see was that it ran subagents in a loop inside Claude Code with native compaction; as opposed to completely empty context.

I do see hints that improving compaction is a major area of work for agent-makers. I'm not certain where my advantage goes at that point.