Reddit users notice long-context 'rot' may be nearly solved within a year
torrid-winnowing · reddit · 2026-09-06
A Reddit poster observes that long-context retrieval in LLMs has improved dramatically in under a year, arguing that 'context rot' — the once-major problem of degraded performance over long contexts — appears to be almost solved, yet the community is barely discussing it. The post is observational without attached benchmarks; readers are encouraged to test current models' long-context performance themselves.
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