Viberpsychosis Glossary
// The Actual Jargon

Compaction

// What it actually means

When an AI coding tool summarises the conversation so far to free up room in the context window, so that a long session can carry on.

// The diagnosis

The agent's memory, quietly boiled down to bullet points. Everything you said in the first hour is now "user prefers clean code." It did not keep the bit about not touching the database.

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