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Context Failure Modes

Long context does not fail by overflowing. It fails by degrading, and it does so in four distinct ways that look identical from the outside: poisoning, overload, brevity bias and collapse. Naming which one you are seeing is what turns a vague complaint that the model got worse into a fix.

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RELATED CONCEPTS

The Context Window Context Window Management for FDE Agents The ReAct Loop (Reason, Act, Observe)Chunking Strategies Prompt Injection and Defense

LESSONS THAT TEACH THIS

Production AI Agents for FDEsGive the model evidence it can safely use25 min→Hard DeploymentsKeep remembered claims current enough and preserve the decisions that matter30 min→

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