Context Drift on a Free Server: A Reproducible Memory Stress Test
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A developer asks a free coding model to refactor a service in twelve steps. Steps one through three pass cleanly. By step five, the model renames a function that was already renamed. By step seven, it reintroduces a deleted dependency. The model did not get dumber. It lost context. This is context…
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- 2026-08-25 04:40 · DEV Community — AI
Context Drift on a Free Server: A Reproducible Memory Stress Test