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		enraged_camel 30 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max I am also trying to understand the difference between compaction, and what IDEs like Cursor do when they "summarize" context over long-running conversations. Is this saying that said summarization now happens at the model level? Or are there other differences?

typpilol 29 days ago | [–]

Afaik, there's no difference besides how aggressive or not it is.

But it's the same concept. Taking tokens in context and removing irreverent ones by summarizing, etc

baby 29 days ago | [–]

Codex couldnt do what claude did before when reaching full context window

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