T2-R3 in five minutes
The context window is how much text the call can see at once.
Instructions, notes, and the growing reply all spend that budget.
Overflow is a cut, not a memory.
Published window sizes change. Confirm the model card.
A long paste is not a retrieval system.
Put the instruction after a long note and the model may never reach it if the note was truncated. Say what you dropped.
Sources and go deeper
- Brown and co-authors, Language Models are Few-Shot Learners, 2020 paper last checked 2026-10
- Large language model — Wikipedia wikipedia last checked 2026-10