LLM Context Windows in 2026 — Long Context, Cache, and the Limits of 'Just Add More'

Practical long-context: when more context helps vs hurts, the lost-in-the-middle problem, caching strategies, retrieval as the better default, and 1M-context economics.

May 2, 2026 · 4 min · 786 words · Manvendra Rajpoot