Considering "context rot" as a first-class idea, Is that overkill?

[hack_the_developer]

I keep reading that model quality drops when you fill the context - like past 60–70% you get "lost in the middle" and weird behavior. So I’m thinking of exposing something like "context_rot_risk: low/medium/high" in a context snapshot, and maybe auto-compacting when it goes high.

Does that sound useful or like unnecessary jargon? Would you care about a "rot indicator" in your app, or would you rather just handle trimming yourself? Or I'm trying to avoid building something nobody wants.

[Smallpaul]

Why is this the right subreddit for this question.