Lost in the Middle: Why LLMs Miss What's Buried in Long Prompts (and How to Fix It)
You paste a 40-page policy doc into the prompt, ask one question, and the model confidently answers as if page 19 doesn't exist. The fact you needed was right there. It just happened to be in the middle. That's not bad luck. It's a well-measured pattern called lost in the middle , and the one lesso…
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- 2026-10-12 08:44 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
Lost in the Middle: Why LLMs Miss What's Buried in Long Prompts (and How to Fix It)