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Why 1-Million Token Context Windows Fail in Production — And How 45-Skill Memory-Driven Development Fixes AI Amnesia

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The entire developer industry spent the last two years celebrating larger LLM context windows. We went from 4k tokens to 32k, then 128k, and now 1M to 2M tokens. The prevailing assumption was simple: "Once the context window is large enough to hold our entire codebase, AI coding agents will write p…

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  1. 2026-10-19 14:52 · DEV Community — AI
    Why 1-Million Token Context Windows Fail in Production — And How 45-Skill Memory-Driven Development Fixes AI Amnesia

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