repligate: noisy context is genuinely 'hard' for LLMs, beyond metaphors

repligate · x · 2026-10-27

repligate argues that when a context window fills with noise and information to track, it is legitimately "hard" for LLMs — not merely a narrative framing. He clarifies he means an ambitious, possibly not-yet-existing version of information theory: a fuller formal framework would be needed to characterize this difficulty, rather than treating it as a metaphor.

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