Sunday, 1st March 2026

Sunday, 1.3.2026

Context Windows Are Limited by Atoms, Not Bits

There is a popular narrative in tech right now: AI progress is exponential, context windows will grow to infinity, and all vertical AI products will soon be replaced by general-purpose AI that can use all the context of your entire business. This implies that the big players like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google, with their general-purpose agents like Claude Cowork, ChatGPT, or Gemini, will subsume all software.

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