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Clearing chat history helps AI agents find better solutions

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Clearing chat history helps AI agents find better solutions

The Decoder · Oct 12, 2026, 4:10 PM UTC

Microsoft researchers found that autonomous AI agents get trapped in what they call "idea basins" because of their growing chat context, local solution regions they can't escape. Their "Fork-and-Flush" method clears the chat history but keeps the workspace, achieving up to 66 percent better results on the same compute budget.…