Context Is What You Need: The Maximum Effective Context Window for Real World Limits of LLMs — mentioned by judahmeek

Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:56:56 GMT

Sounds like you ran into the Maximum Effective Context Window: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21361?context=cs.AI

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Context Is What You Need: The Maximum Effective Context Window for Real World Limits of LLMs — mentioned by scastillo

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:09:06 GMT

This is just how the attention mechanism works. (search for effective context problem for more info. e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21361) To solve it, you just don't allow your current context to use more than 50% of the total window size To do that in Claude code, you have to use subagents and design small enough agents Then you can use skills to make it remember every time the little details or the steps More effectively, you use skills to tell the main thread when you go to use which agent. If you don't understand anything I said, try to restate the important things to the model…

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Context Is What You Need: The Maximum Effective Context Window for Real World Limits of LLMs — mentioned by judahmeek

Context Is What You Need: The Maximum Effective Context Window for Real World Limits of LLMs — mentioned by scastillo