Bigger Context Windows Aren't Making Your AI Smarter (And Here's Why)
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Every few months, another model ships with a bigger context window. 1M tokens. 2M. Someone's already at 10M. The pitch is always the same: Feed it more, get better answers. I ran into the opposite while building a retrieval system designed to enforce coding guidelines before code generation: More c…
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- 2026-09-01 05:10 · DEV Community — AI
Bigger Context Windows Aren't Making Your AI Smarter (And Here's Why)