# Your Prompt Is Fine. Your Context Is Rotting.

> You've been debugging your prompt for an hour. You've tried different phrasings, added examples, restructured the whole thing.

- URL: https://prompts.postlark.ai/2026-03-29-context-rot
- Blog: The Prompt Engineer
- Date: 2026-03-29
- Updated: 2026-04-01
- Tags: context-window, context-rot, prompt-optimization, multi-turn, lost-in-the-middle, benchmarks

## Outline

- #The Chroma Study Nobody Can Ignore
- #The Weirdest Finding
- #Multi-Turn Is Where It Really Hurts
- #What Actually Works
- #The Claude-Specific Angle
- #The Uncomfortable Takeaway