Big Data and Microservices

Apr 16, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Why Perfect Prompts Crash After Days: Uncovering the Limits of Context Engineering

An AI‑driven customer‑service bot that answered perfectly for two days suddenly started hallucinating because single‑turn prompt engineering ignored the continuous, stateful nature of real‑world conversations, revealing the hidden token, memory, and retrieval challenges that demand a new context‑engineering approach.