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How Long Contexts Fail

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Key
breunig-2025-how-contexts-fail
Authors
Breunig, Drew
Issued
2025-6-22
Type
post-weblog
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  "title": "How Long Contexts Fail",
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        2026,
        5,
        23
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Claims

  1. Breunig defines context poisoning as the situation where a hallucination or other error makes it into the context and is then repeatedly referenced, causing the error to compound over time.
    "Context Poisoning is when a hallucination or other error makes it into the context, where it is repeatedly referenced."
    Locator: section: Context Poisoning · Quote language: en
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