The AI's working memory has a hard edge, and you keep hitting it

Everything the model can see at once — your prompt, the chat so far, your files, its own reply — sits in one window with a fixed limit. Tap to watch…

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The context window is everything the model can see at once

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Your messages, files, instructions and its own answer all use it

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More context can lower accuracy (context rot)

What this means for your app

Coding tools put your files into the window. A big project can't all fit, so the tool picks which files to show the model. When the AI "doesn't know" about a file, it often simply wasn't on the…

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