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The bottleneck for AI agents isn’t the model anymore. It’s the context layer.

AI agents face reliability issues not from model limitations but from the context layer, according to a pattern observed over two years. Teams upgrading models still encounter problems, shifting the bottleneck to context management.

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There’s a pattern I’ve watched repeat for two years. A team builds an agent, hits reliability problems, upgrades the model,

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