context compaction
2 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Mar 6, 2026 by Jonas Nelle · across every show →
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Mar 6, 2026 positive
Nelle: Sub-agents provide an architectural boundary to compress agent context cleanly
“And then the other reason to use sub-agents is we want, ah, contexts to be sort of summarized, reduced down at a sub-agent level.
That's a really neat boundary at which to compress that rollout and testing into a final message that that agent writes that then…”
Jul 13, 2026 negative
Biderman: Harmless enterprise queries on frontier models cost thousands of dollars
“And now you can solve these tasks with frontier models and compaction. And when you ask them to do so, they will consume thousands of dollars for queries that we think are harmless. That every employee in the company would be able to answer.”