Managing the LLM Context Window: Operational Data vs. Contextual Data

Managing the LLM Context Window: Operational Data vs. Contextual Data

By: Dominick Romano In the world of large language models (LLMs), the context window represents the amount of information a model can process at once during a single interaction. It acts as the model’s short-term memory, holding all the input data provided in a prompt, including previous messages in a conversation. Context engineering is the practice…