Law 03 · Context & Reliability
Position Is Power
Models read the edges. The middle gets lost.
The principle
Give a model a long input and it pays the most attention to the start and the end. Facts buried in the middle quietly lose their grip. They're present but basically ignored. That's the worst kind of bug, because the information was technically in context and nothing looks wrong.
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