Even if a model has a 400K token context window, after a certain limit it gives bad results due to context poisoning. Covers why most LLM demos feel magical at first and how context engineering disciplines the retrieval layer to maintain coherence at scale.
Details
- Publisher
- Weaviate / Femke Plantinga, Prajjwal Yadav, Victoria Slocum
- Domain
- Engineering & Architecture
- Category
- Context & Harness Engineering
- Type Group
- Docs & Guides
- Type
- Article
- Best For
- Developer
- Skill Level
- Intermediate
- Access
- Free
- Topic
- Context engineering for LLM memory, retrieval, and agent state
- Published
- Dec 9, 2025
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