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Why a bigger context window won't fix your agent's memory

calendar_today June 17, 2026 person Jim Allen Wallace domain redis

Context windows have grown fast, from a few thousand tokens to hundreds of thousands. The natural assumption was that the agent memory problem would shrink as the window grew, but a bigger window does not fix it.

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