<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Posts · Mesh Refinement</title><link>https://meshrefine.com/en/tags/agentic-ai/</link><description>Posts · Mesh Refinement</description><atom:link href="https://meshrefine.com/en/tags/agentic-ai/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><lastBuildDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 20:59:15 +0200</lastBuildDate><item><title>The Treachery of Memory: On Long Contexts and Agentic Failures</title><link>https://meshrefine.com/en/posts/long-context-failures-and-fixes/</link><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.dbreunig.com/2025/06/22/how-contexts-fail-and-how-to-fix-them.html"&gt;How Long Contexts Fail&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.dbreunig.com/2025/06/26/how-to-fix-your-context.html"&gt;How to Fix Your Context&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Long context is your friend&amp;hellip; when we are talking about summarization and retrieval. For agentic workflow it is often detrimental due to reasons such as:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Context poisoning&lt;/strong&gt;, where the model hallucinates and messes with its own context. The ripples are powerful and they die slowly;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Context distraction&lt;/strong&gt;, where the model starts to repeat itself instead of trying new strategies;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Context confusion&lt;/strong&gt;, which happens when one gives the model too many tools (sometimes 2 is too many);&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 20:59:15 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://meshrefine.com/en/posts/long-context-failures-and-fixes/</guid></item></channel></rss>