Free Lesson
Context Rot with ChromaDB
60 min
Sep 17, 2025 1:00 PM
Virtual (Zoom)
In this video
What you'll learn
Context Length Effects on LLM Reliability
Learn how input length degrades model performance through evaluation of 18 state-of-the-art LLMs
Measuring Performance Degradation Patterns
Understand methods to test and quantify how LLMs handle varying context lengths in practice
Non-Uniform Context Processing in LLMs
Discover why LLMs don't process all tokens equally and implications for real-world applications
Why this topic matters
LLMs are increasingly deployed in production systems handling long documents, conversations, and complex prompts.
Understanding context rot is crucial for building reliable AI applications—knowing when and why models fail helps you design better prompts, chunk data effectively, and set appropriate expectations.
This knowledge prevents costly failures in real-world deployments.
You'll learn from

Jason Liu
Consultant at the intersection of Information Retrieval and AI

Kelly Hong
Researcher at Chroma
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