Table of contents Here’s something that bothered me for quite a while before I found a fix: every time an AI coding agent runs a shell command, the full output gets dumped into the context window. All of it. The 262-line test suite output where every single test passed. The verbose git log with commit metadata you’ll […]

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Most of the text flowing through an agent’s context window isn’t code, reasoning, or instructions. It’s logs. Table of contents The problem nobody talks about Here’s something I’ve been noticing while watching AI coding agents work. You ask Cursor or Claude Code to fix a failing test. The agent runs the test suite. The test […]

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