Context Rot: What Claude Code Gets Wrong

Everyone says AI is killing consulting, coding, expertise. Tom Stockton disagrees. His company is growing. His argument isn't the one you'd expect. AI doesn't make hard problems easier — it makes them harder. And harder problems make experts more valuable, not less. That's the optimistic reading. The darker one: if nobody learns to code, we end up with AI governing AI. And in Tom's words, "then we're all screwed."We also get into context rot — why your AI assistant isn't exactly forgetting things, but degrading them — and why the tools you think are ready aren't quite ready yet. Tom Stockton is co-founder of Fuzzy Labs.