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Featured image for article: Why Your AI Gets Dumber the Longer You Talk to It
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.

Featured image for article: The 'Lost in the Middle' Problem: Why Your AI Ignores Information in the Center of Long Prompts
Mar 31, 2026 lost in the middle attention distribution prompt engineering RAG softmax attention

The 'Lost in the Middle' Problem: Why Your AI Ignores Information in the Center of Long Prompts

Research proved that LLMs attend strongly to the beginning and end of context but poorly to the middle. This is a mathematical property, not a bug.