What is the dumb zone?

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• Names “the dumb zone” — the point where, despite million-token context windows, added context degrades output quality rather than improving it, due to attention degradation.
• Teaches strategies for staying out of the dumb zone: minimizing token expenditure while preserving the information the model actually needs.
• Practical takeaway: bigger context windows don’t remove the need for context curation — attention degrades well before the token limit does.