your long chat getting dumber the longer it goes isn't in your head either. starting fresh with a summary fixes it
an hour into a chat and it starts forgetting decisions you made earlier, reintroducing things you already ruled out, getting vaguer. people assume the model got tired or it's busy. it's the context. chroma published research last year calling it "context rot". performance on the same task dropped a…
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- 2026-10-06 06:09 · r/PromptEngineering
your long chat getting dumber the longer it goes isn't in your head either. starting fresh with a summary fixes it