Wild WordAI Experience
context rot
“Session quality decays as the window fills.”
First Seen
2025
Context
Models don't process the 10,000th token as reliably as the 100th. Performance drops with distractors, with semantic distance from the question, and even on trivial copy-the-text tasks. The phenomenon drives 'context engineering' as a distinct discipline.
Citation
Medium / Vibe Coding
2025
https://medium.com/vibe-coding/the-concept-every-ai-coder-learns-too-late-c63dd872f923A wild word — documented from usage in the field, not coined by Xenolexica.
Understanding & Perception