# Natural tension between compression and context There is a natural tension between tension and context. The more we compress information, and the more context we lose. To communicate anything, it needs to be encoded compressed. When we compress, we lose a lot of the context that made the information valuable. So there's a balance to maintain. Extreme compression should be avoided. ## Related - [[Context Compression]] - [[Context Bloat]] - [[AI Context Rot]] - [[Token Budget]] - [[Context Window]]