Context Language Models: 11% Better Answers on 21% Less Compute

A UW and Meta paper turns agent context into a file the model edits itself, beating summarization baselines with fewer FLOPs. Here is what that means next to compaction, why prefix caching is the real blocker, and the self-injection hole the authors flagged without fixing.

$ 2026.10.15 · 5 min read · #AI agents

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Context Language Models: 11% Better Answers on 21% Less Compute

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