Most developers treat the context window like a bucket. paste more, get more, fill the million tokens and the model reasons over all of it....
Prime Intellect engineer: "everyone's bragging about a million-token context. here's what they don't tell you. at 256k tokens GPT-5.5 scores 80% on retrieval. push it to a million and it drops to 36%. the model accepts the context, it just can't reason across it. people call it context rot." in a...
