A municipal recycling-pickup tester pastes three weeks of route logs and the model “forgets” Monday’s missed stops. What does the context window represent?
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Short Explanation
Think of a whiteboard that only holds so many sticky notes before the oldest fall off. The context window is that token budget of prior text. Overstuffed logs can leave early details outside what the model still sees.
Full Explanation
The context window limits how much preceding text—counted in tokens—the model can still take into account when generating. Long route logs can exceed that budget so early events drop from view, which testers may experience as “forgetting.” That limit is separate from embeddings, symbolic rule counts, or output-title formatting rules. Understanding the window helps when pasting large testing-shaped artefacts.