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title: "Discussion on \"What Lives Inside an LLM's Context Window\" | Hashnode"
description: "Discussion on \"What Lives Inside an LLM's Context Window\". A language model can only respond to the text sitting right in front of it. That text is the context window — its short-term working memory. Once you can see what's inside it, almost every \"weird\" thing an AI does suddenly makes sense."
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# [What Lives Inside an LLM's Context Window](https://corelogic.hashnode.dev/what-lives-inside-an-llm-s-context-window?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

A language model can only respond to the text sitting right in front of it. That text is the context window — its short-term working memory. Once you can see what's inside it, almost every "weird" thing an AI does suddenly makes sense.

May 31 · 11 min read · corelogic.hashnode.dev  
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