Generative AI Fundamentals Map
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Context engineering

Compaction, retrieval and pruning keep a long run coherent.

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Facts

Lane
Agents and organisations
Wave
1 of 12 (build order, not a date)
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0 boxes all the way back through hard links
Unlocks
53 boxes downstream through hard links
Leverage
None: already built
Cluster
Agents at work

Evidence as of October 2026

Quality drops as the context window fills ("context rot"), so what goes into it has become an engineering discipline of its own.

  1. 01Context rot: why your agent slows down (LogRocket)

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Nothing beyond the detail list. It can start at any time.

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