Date: September 13th, 2026 5:36 PM Author: canary motley location
they blow through 80k tokens in 1-2 prompts. At that point, context rot starts to set in. By 128k tokens, the memory degradation begins to offset any improvement in the model's capabilities. They say the models have 1 million token context windows, but they don't tell you that context still degrades past 128k tokens. Law of physics. Elon and Dario can't do shit about it.
Date: September 13th, 2026 5:38 PM Author: canary motley location
"The thing with LLMs is that the longer the context they’re working with, the less accurate they become. A 2023 Stanford study found that with just 20 retrieved documents (~4,000 tokens), an LLM's accuracy can drop from 70-75% down to 55-60%. The information isn't wrong or missing, the model just pays less attention to it."