Prompting on Life Support: How Invasive Context Engineering Fights Long-Context Drift
Opening — Why This Matters Now The industry’s guilty secret is that long-context models behave beautifully in demos and then slowly unravel in real usage. The longer the conversation or chain-of-thought, the less the model remembers who it’s supposed to be—and the more creative it becomes in finding trouble. This isn’t a UX quirk. It’s a structural problem. And as enterprises start deploying LLMs into safety‑critical systems, long-context drift is no longer amusing; it’s a compliance nightmare. ...