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Context Rot: Why Your AI Agent Gets Dumber the Longer It Runs

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My agent once spent nine minutes fixing a bug it had already fixed. Turn 12: it patched a missing null check in auth.ts . Tests went green. I said nice, keep going. Turn 38: it read a stack trace that was still sitting in the context window from turn 11, concluded the fix had never landed, and re-p…

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  1. 2026-08-29 03:56 · DEV Community — AI
    Context Rot: Why Your AI Agent Gets Dumber the Longer It Runs

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