LLM tokens and context windows: why AI forgets your conversation
Overall-Beach-9801 · reddit · 2026-10-25
A Redditor published a beginner-friendly article in his 'Behind the AI Stack' series explaining tokens and context windows — how text is split into tokens, capacity limits, and why instructions still visible in chat get truncated or diluted, causing the assistant to 'forget' them.
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