Episode Details

We're sitting at roughly a million tokens of context, and the entire field of agentic AI has organized itself around that ceiling. But what happens if that limit jumps an order of magnitude overnight? This episode examines whether bigger context windows actually solve the problems we think they will — or just make them worse. We dig into the research on attention degradation, "lost in the middle" failures, and context rot, then build a diagnostic for separating practices that are load-bearing from those that are just scaffolding around a temporary limit.