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Long-Conversation Context Engineering: Compression, Summarization, and Chunking to Keep AI Focused and Affordable
Why does an AI grow costlier and more scattered the longer a conversation runs? Drawing on the latest research from Chroma, Anthropic, and others, this article breaks down four context-engineering strategies — sliding window, summarization (compaction), chunk offloading, and pinning key information — and how to combine them.