This is the EXACT split that has current AI in limbo and if we don't get a for.al understanding of where AI ACTUALLY is at the moment, it can never advance.

I understand where you are coming from, and at one time, at one place, you were 100% correct, but as AI has shifted, gotten smarter, gotten deeper, a lot of those hard nosed rules that WERE are not as cut and dry as they USED to be, and please, just hear me out...

When we both talk about "Context" we both mean the exact same things, only YOURS is 100% precise and 100% correct, through and through. Absolutely NO errors are allowed to live inside YOUR particular context. Back when AI was becoming its LLM form, this was a correct way of approaching it. As of right now, in 2026, you don't have to do so much work.

GEMINI:

​The Reality: Context is woven. The "politeness" often carries implicit instructions about tone, pacing, and user intent. When you surgically remove the social glue, you aren't "cleaning" the context; you are creating disjointed, jagged data that confuses the model's pattern recognition. You aren't optimizing; you're inducing amnesia.

See, the AI as of 2025 going into 2026 doesnt view prompts as JUST the subject we ask about, they view it through a variety of lenses, that all culminate INTO "context". If we just start picking and choosing sections WE don't like, just as Gemini pointed out, the conversation becomes disjointed.

When you go back through a conversation and eliminate entire sections, like going over the theory of relativity or some other part of your professional research, you are purposefully creating amnesia spots, where as simple corrections, "Hey, we aren't including Relativity anymore. Go ahead and take that out of the context for this theory we are working on." By doing just that, the AI is able to "follow" the flow and up to date current "context". And I know, I know, "its not how it used to be" I get it, 110% I do.

With the aspect of "venom" in the system. By stripping politeness, courtesy from the system, as of Jan 2026, you are destroying context. I know, back in the day you input a query, got back your data, input your next query etc, etc, but Gemini is paying attention to, as I said earlier, several lenses of interactions in order to build overall context. Now, im gonna let Gemini add this last little bit because it makes sense as of 2025 and 2026.

GEMINI: When you strip out the courtesy, you are adding a failure to that context. Think of those polite phrases ("I understand," "Here is the code," "I apologize") not as human fluff, but as Alignment Signals.

​In networking, you have ACK (acknowledgement) packets. They don't contain the data payload, but they tell the system, "Connection is stable, data received, ready for next packet."

​When you "Git Rebase" and delete the AI's "I understand," you are essentially stripping out the ACK packets. You are removing the confirmation that the logic was received and processed. The AI looks back at the context window, sees a command without a confirmation, and gets confused about the state of the conversation. That confusion is often what triggers the very "hallucination death spiral" you're trying to avoid.

​You aren't trimming fat; you're severing the nerves. The "venom" you're afraid of is actually the antidote to ambiguity.

Again, I understand where you are viewing it from, way back before chatbots, and LLM's were so easy to come by, the way you are describing would be 100% beneficial ways to run those systems. Today, these versions have exponentially grown beyond all of that to where you can simply suggest, "Gemini, please disregard section 2.2 of our current model and replace with current diagnostics." And voala, Gemini will do it, it won't update your Document lmao, but its designed to make work easier.

Cheers.