Lexicon · term
Attention dilution
Also called Drift toward the generic, Session drift.
The decay of a model’s adherence to complex local constraints as a session extends and its context fills. The direction of the decay is the point: long collaboration degrades toward convention rather than toward error, which is harder to catch, because conventional work is exactly what a reviewer’s eye is trained to accept. Answered operationally by the atomic session, one per task, cleared on merge, with the constraints reloaded from a file rather than remembered from the conversation.