context explosion

[ KON-tekst ik-SPLOH-zhuhn ]noun

What happens when you hand an AI so much material at once that the answers get worse.

Explanation

More stuff is not more understanding. Past a point, the thing it needed is buried in everything else you added. The usual fix is a second, smaller AI with one narrow job.

Related words

• context window — How much the AI can hold in front of it at one time.
• subagent — A second AI sent off to do one small job on its own, which comes back with only the answer.