Matt Shumer: agents degrade as context fills up, 'dropping things left and right'
mattshumer_ · x · 2026-09-15
In a discussion on agent reliability, Matt Shumer notes that agents work great at first but get worse as the context window fills up, causing them to drop tasks — a first-hand account of long-context degradation as a core pain point in agent workflows.
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