Martin Fowler 3/17/2026

Context Anchoring

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The article discusses the problem of context erosion in AI-assisted development, where decisions made in long chat sessions are lost. It proposes 'Context Anchoring'—using external, living documents to record feature-level decisions and reasoning, similar to team collaboration. This creates durable, shared understanding beyond the AI's limited context window.

Context Anchoring

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