The Knowledge Atom: Writing for Machines That Read
The Hoarder's Reflex
Everyone is learning to feed the machine. Bigger context files. Paste the whole document. "Give the AI all the context it needs." The entire industry has converged on a single instinct: when in doubt, add more.
It's the wrong instinct.
A context window is not a hard drive. It's a desk. And a desk piled with every document you own is not a well-informed desk — it's an unusable one. The model doesn't read better because you gave it more. It reads worse, because the one line that mattered is now buried under a thousand that didn't.
