https://www.advancingengineering.dev/tags/context-window/Recent content in Context-Window on Advancing EngineeringHugoenWed, 28 Oct 2026 21:21:32 +0000https://www.advancingengineering.dev/posts/2026-10-agentic-web-search/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000https://www.advancingengineering.dev/posts/2026-10-agentic-web-search/<p>The easiest way to give an agent the web is <code>curl</code>. It works, and it is a terrible idea. A single Wikipedia article comes back as navigation menus, inline scripts, tracking pixels and markup, with the few paragraphs you wanted buried somewhere in the middle. The agent reads every byte of it, and every byte sits in the context window for the rest of the session.</p>