The Treachery of Memory: On Long Contexts and Agentic Failures

How Long Contexts Fail How to Fix Your Context Long context is your friend… when we are talking about summarization and retrieval. For agentic workflow it is often detrimental due to reasons such as: Context poisoning, where the model hallucinates and messes with its own context. The ripples are powerful and they die slowly; Context distraction, where the model starts to repeat itself instead of trying new strategies; Context confusion, which happens when one gives the model too many tools (sometimes 2 is too many); ...

June 30, 2025 · 2 min

Griptape, Part 2: Building Graphs

In the previous post, I broke down the basic concepts of the Griptape AI framework, and now it’s time to put them into practice. We’ll try to use them to develop a small application that helps run a link-blog on Telegram. The application will receive a URL, download its content, run it through an LLM to generate a summary, translate that summary into a couple of other languages, combine everything, and publish it to Telegram via a bot. The general flow can be seen in the diagram below: ...

June 5, 2025 · 11 min