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: Why More Context Makes Your Agent Dumber and What to Do About It — Nupur Sharma, Qodo is an agent-security signal. The practical read is that autonomy, memory, tool permissions, and third-party integrations are the control surface that needs threat modeling and monitoring.