'Momentum Prior' and Context Rot: Why You Should Restart Sessions

Practitioners identified 'momentum prior' as an agent failure mode where early tokens lock attention onto a wrong direction, and the best fix is simply starting a fresh session, which also clears context rot.

2026-09-08 ~ 2026-09-09 · 3 related posts

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