
Context Window Management for AI Coding: The Developer's Guide
Learn how AI context windows work, why long coding sessions degrade, and practical strategies and tools like vexp to keep Claude effective and costs low.
The science and practice of managing, optimizing, and engineering context for AI coding agents.

Learn how AI context windows work, why long coding sessions degrade, and practical strategies and tools like vexp to keep Claude effective and costs low.

Prompt engineering shapes intent; context engineering shapes what the model actually knows. For serious AI coding, context wins by a mile.

Why current AI coding agents forget your codebase between sessions, and how vexp’s session memory, staleness tracking, and cross-agent graph fix it.

AI coding agents waste tokens by loading hundreds of irrelevant files. Dependency graphs fix this with precise, structural context selection.

Why context, not prompts, is the real bottleneck for AI coding agents—and how dependency graphs, session memory, and token budgets fix it.