DiscoverMachine Learning Tech Brief By HackerNoonYou Don't Have a Prompt Problem. You Have a Context Problem.
You Don't Have a Prompt Problem. You Have a Context Problem.

You Don't Have a Prompt Problem. You Have a Context Problem.

Update: 2025-11-29
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This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/you-dont-have-a-prompt-problem-you-have-a-context-problem.

Why LLMs collapse on email threads, recursive conversations, and unstructured communication—and what a context-first architecture looks like in practice.

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Most AI failures aren't model failures, they're context failures. LLMs are powerful but fundamentally blind to decisions, relationships, history, and tone. The messiest data in any company (email, chat, docs) is where AI struggles most. We spent years building an engine that turns unstructured communication into structured intelligence. This article breaks down what makes this hard, why traditional methods fail, and how a context-first architecture actually works.

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You Don't Have a Prompt Problem. You Have a Context Problem.

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