Posts tagged with "context rot"

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Mar 31, 2026 context rot AI degradation lost in the middle attention mechanism AI quality

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.

Mar 31, 2026 softmax attention dilution context rot information theory attention weights

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.