Viberpsychosis Glossary
// The Actual Jargon

Context Window

// What it actually means

The maximum amount of text, measured in tokens, that a model can consider at once. It includes your instructions, the conversation so far, any files it has read and its own replies.

// The diagnosis

The size of the room your AI thinks in. Bigger every six months. Never quite big enough for your monorepo. You will come to know its exact size the way smokers know the price of twenty.

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