Stop Dumping Logs Into Chat! The Sequential Log Analysis Protocol (SLAP)

Introduction In the era of large language models boasting massive context windows, developers have fallen into a dangerous debugging pattern: dropping a 10,000-line raw execution log directly into a chat window alongside their source code. Once an error gets into a chat's memory, that memory becomes less and less useful. Sometimes a model can correct itself, but more often, it triggers a kind of…