AI Engineer YouTube · June 8, 2026

Why More Context Makes Your Agent Dumber and What to Do About It — Nupur Sharma, Qodo

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Why it matters

Give an agent your full codebase and it will attend to the start and the end, then quietly drop the middle. Nupur from Qodo calls this the U curve and builds the whole talk around it: why growing the context window did not fix the problem, and what actually does. She runs through iterative retrieval, hierarchical summa

My takeaway: Give an agent your full codebase and it will attend to the start and the end, then quietly drop the middle. Nupur from Qodo calls this the U curve and builds the whole talk around it: why growing the context window did not fix the problem, and what actually does. She runs through iterative retrieval, hierarchical summa