Context Rot
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O'Laughlin: AI coding agents remain constrained by context rot
“I don't think it's like the galaxy brain software and we're very Far from there, because if you actually play with these tools a lot, context rod is real.”
Martin: Context caching solves cost and latency, but not context rot
“I do think an important and subtle point here is that caching doesn't solve the long context problem. So it, of course, solves the problem of, like, latency and cost, but if you still have a 100,000 tokens in context whether it's cached or not, the LM is utili…”