How to Fix AI Workflows That Break Because of Context Window Limits

Dev.to AI
Generative AI AI Safety

TL;DR: Stop treating your LLM prompt like a database. Copy-pasting giant codebases or massive documents into ChatGPT/Claude inevitably leads to hallucinations and context amnesia. To build resilient AI workflows, you need to decouple the AI's "brain" (LLM) from its "memory" (Data) by shifting to a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture and utilizing persistent memory platforms like MemoryLake.