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#Context Window

AI Tools

Why Longer AI Chats Start Repeating Themselves

Long AI chats drop your corrections and repeat old answers. The model didn't get dumber, it ran out of room. A two minute test and a restart habit that fixes it.

September 29, 2026
AI Tools

AI Context Caching Is Cache Invalidation With Worse Tooling

Context engineering borrowed cache vocabulary but skipped the part that matters: key design. Here's how versioned, provenance-based keys fix stale retrieval where TTL clocks can't.

August 17, 2026
AI Agents

Context Window Accounting: Why Your Agent Gets Dumber After Turn 8

Long agent loops collapse around turn 8 — not because the window is full, but because tool results silently eat the budget. Here's the audit pattern and checkpoint prompt to fix it.

June 01, 2026