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Context budget long debugging session 2026 06 25 c
#context window
#debugging
#coding assistants
#developer tools
#software
2026-06-25 05:21:34
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Context budget is the limited attention space available for a coding assistant to hold the goal, repository facts, logs, decisions, and unresolved questions at the same time. A long debugging session can waste context quickly. Full logs, repeated file listings, old hypotheses, and unrelated code snippets compete with the current failure. When the useful facts are buried, the assistant may fix the wrong layer or forget a constraint that was already established. Good context budgeting separates durable facts from temporary noise. Durable facts include the exact error, environment, touched files, expected behavior, failing command, and previous rejected approaches. Temporary noise includes long logs after the relevant stack trace, duplicate output, and speculative notes that are no longer being tested. A practical habit is to keep a small session brief: current bug, reproduction command, last verified state, risky files, and next check. Updating that brief after each failed attempt is often better than pasting everything again. Context budget is not about hiding information. It is about keeping the information that changes the next decision visible when the session gets long.
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