The middle is where your content dies, and not because your writing suddenly gets bad halfway down the page, and not because your reader gets bored. But because large language models have a repeatable weakness with long contexts, and modern AI systems increasingly squeeze long content before the model even reads it.
That combo creates what I think of as dog-bone thinking. Strong at the beginning, strong at the end, and the middle gets wobbly. The model drifts, loses the thread, or grabs the wrong supporting detail. You can publish a long,…
