The problem isn't giving MORE context to an agent, it's giving the right context
These things are built for pattern matching, and if you keep their context focused on one pattern, they'll perform much better
You want to avoid dumping in a bunch of data (like a year's worth of git logs) and telling it to sort out what's relevant itself
Better to have pre-processing steps, that find (and maybe summarize) what's relevant, then only bring that into context
You can do that by running your git history through a cheap model, and asking it to extract the relevant bits for the current change. But, that can be overkill and error prone, compared to just maintaining markdown files as you make changes
These things are built for pattern matching, and if you keep their context focused on one pattern, they'll perform much better
You want to avoid dumping in a bunch of data (like a year's worth of git logs) and telling it to sort out what's relevant itself
Better to have pre-processing steps, that find (and maybe summarize) what's relevant, then only bring that into context
You can do that by running your git history through a cheap model, and asking it to extract the relevant bits for the current change. But, that can be overkill and error prone, compared to just maintaining markdown files as you make changes