Stuffing the Context Window Is Making Your Agent Dumber: What the Research Says

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Disclosure: I maintain Lynkr, an open-source gateway that (among other things) compresses agent tool outputs — so I have a horse in this race. This piece, though, is about the research, and every number in it is cited to its primary source. There's an intuition almost every LLM user shares: more context = better answers. Million-token context windows are marketed as a capability. We paste in whole fi