TLDR AI · ENGINEERING & RESEARCH
LLM CONTEXT MANAGEMENT: HOW TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE AND LOWER COSTS
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While modern large language models feature increasingly large context windows, simply filling the context window with as much information as possible is bad practice. It creates context bloat, which can lead to worse performance and higher costs. The key to managing context is understanding what is in it. Be selective with MCP be servers - if a server is not needed for the current task, consider disabling it to free up context space.