how are you keeping context alive across the dev cycle without huge system prompts?

A developer community discussion highlights a major challenge in development workflows: context loss between initial meetings, PRDs, tickets, and the IDE. This loss often leads to coding agents hallucinating missing requirements because half the rationale behind decisions is lost by the time a ticket reaches them. The discussion seeks solutions for persisting context across planning and coding, questioning whether developers use a central context layer or rely on longer system prompts and detailed ticket descriptions to prevent this issue.

This discussion uniquely focuses on how developers are actively persisting context across the entire dev cycle, unlike typical discussions that only address code generation.