What Is Context Rot? Why AI Agents Degrade Mid-Session
Originally published at getunblocked.com on August 10, 2026. Context rot is the gradual degradation of an LLM's output quality as its context grows — the model starts missing, misreading, or ignoring information that is still right there in the window. It sets in long before the window is full, and it is the usual reason an agent that felt sharp for the first hour starts fumbling in the second.…
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