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What Does 'Context Debt' Mean?

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The accumulated unresolved or outdated information in a long AI conversation that quietly degrades the quality of later responses.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"The chat had so much context debt by the end that the model kept contradicting itself."

LORE & ORIGIN

Named analogously to technical debt โ€” every unresolved thread in a long context window adds interest that eventually has to be paid.

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