Big Context, Little Content: Why the LLM Context Window Is Not a Data Lake

Big context, little content that is the short summary of what research tells us about large LLM context windows. Vendors advertise one million tokens as if capacity were the same as capability. Load everything in, the message goes, and the model will sort it out. Data professionals have heard this promise before. Fifteen years ago the container was called a data lake, and the currency was…