As generative AI models grow their context windows, a hidden problem emerges: more information often leads to worse answers. Known as context rot, this phenomenon reveals a U-shaped performance curve where accuracy peaks at moderate context sizes, then degrades as signal is buried in noise. Bigger memory doesn’t guarantee better reasoning—effective context does.

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