He built a product on 'transcripts are the new oil.' Now he reports zero benefit and recants (12gramsofcarbon.com)
The claim: giving coding agents search access to their own past transcripts produced zero measurable gain on software tasks when docs, PRs and commits were already available. Worse, agents burned tokens re-reading known context and couldn't purge stale info, causing 'intent drift.'
In the comments a builder with a live logging setup strong-disagrees and lists real wins — forcing the author back in to ask what workflow keeps hitting a context limit that million-token models rarely reach.
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