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Context Poisoning is Killing Your AI Agents: How to Stop it
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- Mar 25, 2026
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- 2658
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Summary
Michel Tricot co-founded Airbyte, the open source data integration platform with 600+ free connectors that hit a $1.5 billion valuation. Now he's building the company's next product: an agent engine, currently in public beta. His thesis is that agents don't fail because models are bad. They fail because the data feeding them is wrong: context poisoning is killing them. Michel demos this live. A simple Gong query through raw API calls burned 30,000 extra tokens and took three minutes. Chain of Thought is hosted by Conor Bronsdon.