The Context Paradox: Why More AI Instructions Are Making Your Coding Agents Dumber (and How to Fix It)
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Originally published on tamiz.pro . You added another 2,000 tokens of coding conventions to your system prompt. Your agent now follows the style guide... but it also ignores your bug-fix instructions, hallucinates import paths, and produces function bodies that are 40% longer than necessary. You're…
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- 2026-10-04 12:02 · DEV Community — AI
The Context Paradox: Why More AI Instructions Are Making Your Coding Agents Dumber (and How to Fix It)