Implicator.
Half of Claude Code's 200,000-token context window vanishes before developers type a single message. Now a cottage industry of optimization hacks, paid toolkits, and CLAUDE.md pruning rituals has sprung up to manage the tool that was supposed to manage itself. The parallel to manual memory management isn't flattering, and the business incentives behind it are even worse.
Senior broadcast journalist and former ARD correspondent for Europe's largest public broadcaster. Covering the tech industry from San Francisco for 10+ years. Founded implicator.ai for independent, rigorous AI reporting. E-mail: [email protected]
