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Glenn Allogho
Glenn Allogho

Posted on Originally published at pub.towardsai.net

A 1M context window is not a free upgrade

A 1M context window sounds like a free upgrade. It is not.

Cost and latency climb with every dumped file, and the soft middle of a giant window still loses the lines that matter. Dumping the whole repo into GPT-6 Astra is how you burn frontier money for a worse answer.

Retrieval beats a bigger window.

Friend link (no paywall):
https://pub.towardsai.net/gpt-6-astras-1m-context-window-is-a-trap-here-is-why-15a8cba3a9fc?sk=6c5a34b241f9aef63d5372f1aebbc1c9

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