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Context rot
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Agent memory hierarchy
Quadratic attention degradation is the motivation for typed memory tiers, compaction, and offloading rather than full-history prompts.
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Total Recall: Agent Memory and Harness Engineering — Ignacio Martinez, Oracleattention budget
As non-instruction tokens (logs, diffs) accumulate, attention to core instructions is diluted, causing instruction violation.
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Context Engineering in 2026 — Louis-François Bouchard, Omar Solano & Samridhi Vaid, Towards AIprobable-output bias
Defaulting to modal outputs across many surfaces is the mechanism by which product context decays over repeated generation.
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How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with Al | Katie Dill (Stripe)