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Context Rot: Why Your AI Agent Gets Worse the Longer It Works

calendar_today June 18, 2026 person Vineet Bhatkoti domain dzone

AI systems can degrade subtly in production without throwing errors or appearing in dashboards. This context rot pattern describes how responses gradually lose relevance and nuance over time despite unchanged models and prompts.

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