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Matt Pocock argues that even if a model claims to support a 1-million-token context window, the true 'Smart Zone' is roughly within 100,000 tokens, beyond which model performance degrades.
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7/2/2026
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Valid until: 9/30/2026(expired)
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Matt Pocock's AI Coding Workflow: A Complete Methodology from Ideation to Delivery
bilibiliGelai_AI
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