Posts tagged "context rot"

Why Your AI Gets Dumber the Longer You Talk to It

You're not imagining it. Research tested 18 frontier models and every single one degrades as the conversation gets longer. Here's the science behind it.

Softmax Attention and the Dilution Problem: The Math Behind Context Rot

As context grows, softmax normalizes attention weights so each relevant token gets less attention. This mathematical property is why AI accuracy drops with length.