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AI Concepts

Context Rot

Definition

The slow degradation of a long prompt or conversation as stale instructions, repeated summaries, and outdated assumptions accumulate over time.

In Plain English

When a long AI session gets messy and starts carrying around too much old baggage.

Related Terms

Context Window Prompt Caching RAG

See Also

Hallucination
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