Posts tagged Context Rot — AI × software engineering, made practical.
You'll learn how a prompt differs from context, why extra context can make an agent worse, and how to use three questions to decide what stays in and what comes out.
Your agent isn't running out of room; it's rotting from the inside, and the transcript will lie to your face about it.
Nothing overflowed, nothing got truncated, and the model still ignored an explicit rule sitting in plain sight — because a bigger context window doesn't buy the model more attention, it buys it more competition for the same fixed budget.