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judahmeekyesterday at 5:56 PM1 replyview on HN

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


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dmos62yesterday at 7:23 PM

Interesting article. Not sure it's the same phenomenon. What I experienced was like a day and night difference when you go from 44.5k to 45.5k. Didn't notice any fluctuation to suggest that it's no a hard 45000 limit. I ran many many queries, similar problem space, but the problems varied a lot.