LLM Memory vs Context Window: The Gap Nobody Explains
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The context window is a container. Memory is what you decide to put in it. Almost every "memory" conversation conflates the two — here is how they actually work, and how to build a memory layer that does not bankrupt you. Two months ago I was debugging a customer-support agent for a retail client,…
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- 2026-08-25 02:30 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
LLM Memory vs Context Window: The Gap Nobody Explains