Externalizing Context to Survive Memory Wipe
Analysis
The article describes a user's workaround for the context limitations of LLMs. The user is saving project state, decision logs, and session information to GitHub and reloading it at the start of each new chat session to maintain continuity. This highlights a common challenge with LLMs: their limited memory and the need for users to manage context externally. The post is a call for discussion, seeking alternative solutions or validation of the user's approach.
Key Takeaways
“been running multiple projects with claude/gpt/local models and the context reset every session was killing me. started dumping everything to github - project state, decision logs, what to pick up next - parsing and loading it back in on every new chat basically turned it into a boot sequence. load the project file, load the last session log, keep going feels hacky but it works.”