The bottleneck for AI agents isn’t the model anymore. It’s the context layer.
There’s a pattern I’ve watched repeat for two years. A team builds an agent, hits reliability problems, upgrades the model, The post The bottleneck for AI agents isn’t the model anymore. It’s the context layer. appeared first on The New Stack .
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Published: 18 July 2026
Source: The New Stack AI
Category: News
Topics: Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 19 July 2026
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