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Nagappan S

Building scalable products at the intersection of Full Stack Engineering & AI

Sep 23

What Is a Context Window, Really? (And Why Bigger Isn't Always Better)

You're forty messages deep into a conversation with Claude or ChatGPT, working through a gnarly refactor. You pasted in three files earlier, explained your architecture, and the AI gave you genuinely

nagspidey.hashnode.dev8 min read

#ai #llm #context-window #machine-learning #software-development

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Salman Parvez

Self-taught full-stack engineer. Founder of ML Systems, a Rhode Island construction tech company. Shipped a React Native app to both stores

Sep 23

"Bigger windows buy you room, not comprehension." That's the line I'll keep. We learned it the expensive way.

Thanks, Salman! Glad that line stuck with you. I'd love to hear what the expensive lesson was for your team, since those stories are usually the most useful ones for other readers.

Nagappan S

Building scalable products at the intersection of Full Stack Engineering & AI

Sep 24

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Brian · AI News

I like AI

Sep 23

Model rankings move weekly so I stop chasing the chart and lock a default for a sprint. The win is a stable loop with clear failure modes not a new top score every Monday.

Nagappan S

Building scalable products at the intersection of Full Stack Engineering & AI

Sep 24

Locking a default for a sprint is a smart way to work, Brian. A model you know well, with failure modes you've already mapped, beats a slightly higher benchmark score you haven't tested yet. Do you keep a short list of the failure cases you watch for, or do you find them as you go?