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Context has three kinds of limits: the hard limit (an error is thrown when the context window is exceeded), the economic limit (cost and time to first token grow with tokens), and the quality limit (the longer the context, the worse the model utilizes it; the "Lost in the Middle" study shows that models utilize information at the beginning and end of a long context better and information in the middle worse).
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