A Bigger Context Window Doesn't Mean the LLM Uses It

The Simple Version An LLM&rsquo;s context window is the maximum amount of text it can receive. How well it actually uses that text is a separate question, and the answer is often: not very well. Context Windows Are Marketing, Utilization Is Engineering When Anthropic announced Claude&rsquo;s 100,000-token context window, and later its 200,000-token window, the tech press treated it as a…