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. There’s a pattern I’ve watched repeat for two years. A team builds an agent, hits reliability problems, upgrades the model, The post The bottleneck for AI agents isn’t the model anymore. It’s the context layer. appeared first on The New Stack.