One of the most common misconceptions in modern AI is that a larger context window somehow "solves"...
One of the most common misconceptions in modern AI is that a larger context window somehow "solves" memory.
It doesn't.
A context window increases how much information a model can consider during a single inference. It does not give the system a durable memory of what happened before or what should matter later.
There's a cleaner way to think about this, and it uses a hierarchy every systems engineer already knows by heart.
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