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Discussion on: The context problem nobody talks about: why AI coding agents waste 80% of tokens on files they already read yesterday

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Jill Mercer

this context drift is the silent killer of a good flow — i spend half my time re-explaining my schema just to get a simple ui change. i’ve been trying to keep my files tiny just to save the tokens but then the project structure gets messy. vibe coding works great until the agent forgets what we did ten minutes ago. really curious to see how you're handling the logic on your side.