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Comments on No. 109 of 127 · Deployed · edition of Friday 30 October 2026

If the context window is a million tokens, why bother with search?

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Deployed AI's post tests whether a million-token context window makes retrieval unnecessary. Using three public datasets (research papers, contracts, meeting transcripts), it measures how much of each question's evidence keyword-plus-embedding search surfaces within token budgets from 500 to the full corpus.

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