Tag: context rot
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Cloud Blog: Announcing Vertex AI Agent Engine Memory Bank available for everyone in preview
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/vertex-ai-memory-bank-in-public-preview/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Announcing Vertex AI Agent Engine Memory Bank available for everyone in preview Feedly Summary: Developers are racing to productize agents, but a common limitation is the absence of memory. Without memory, agents treat each interaction as the first, asking repetitive questions and failing to recall user preferences. This…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: How to Fix Your Context
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/29/how-to-fix-your-context/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: How to Fix Your Context Feedly Summary: How to Fix Your Context Drew Breunig has been publishing some very detailed notes on context engineering recently. In How Long Contexts Fail he described four common patterns for context rot, which he summarizes like so: Context Poisoning: When a…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Workaccount2 on Hacker News
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/18/context-rot/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Workaccount2 on Hacker News Feedly Summary: They poison their own context. Maybe you can call it context rot, where as context grows and especially if it grows with lots of distractions and dead ends, the output quality falls off rapidly. Even with good context the rot…