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The More Context You Give Your AI Coding Agent, the Worse It Can Get
We keep hearing the same advice:
Give the AI more context.
Add the README.
Add AGENTS.md .
Add architecture docs.
Add logs.
Add previous decisions.
Add the whole repository.
Add memory from previous sessions.
Sounds reasonable.
But there is a problem:
More context does not always mean better understanding.
Sometimes it means more noise.
More stale assumptions.
More conflicting instructions.
More irrelevant files.
And more chances for t...
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