Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Your 1 million token context window is lying to you.
The bigger you make the prompt, the worse the model gets at using it. It reads the start, reads the end, and skims the middle.
A longer prompt is not a better prompt. You pay more, wait longer, and usually get a worse answer.
This is why every serious AI agent in 2026 runs context compaction. I broke down 11 of these techniques and the exact order I run them in. #short
Your 1 million token context window is lying to you.
The bigger you make the prompt, the worse the model gets at using it. It reads the start, reads the end, and skims the middle.
A longer prompt is not a better prompt. You pay more, wait longer, and usually get a worse answer.
This is why every serious AI agent in 2026 runs context compaction. I broke down 11 of these techniques and the exact order I run them in. #short
