yeah ive read so many takes on how people survive compaction amnesia ive wired up my own "protocols" that are okay, have used things like beads, am okay burning a buttload of context right at the beginning of a post-compaction just to get up to speed and oriented.. but i still end up with a decent amount of sprawl and lately the writing style of claude has just gotten so dense and nonsensical that my eyes are starting to glaze over.

this seems to be the fate with all the big grand 'god' projects people are doing with AI. super epic omega knowledge bases, super epic omega personal platforms, etc. I don't think enough people admit that whatever they're working on has evolved into something they don't fully understand.