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by saberience 926 days ago
I've found that the longer context windows don't seem to be a linear improvement in responses though. It's like the longer the context window, the quality of the response is perhaps broader, but less sharp or accurate. I've been using GPT4-turbo with the longer context window for coding tasks but it doesn't seem to have improved the responses as much as you would think, it seems to be more "distracted" now, which perhaps makes some intuitive sense.

I can give gpt4-turbo many full code files to try and solve a complex coding task but despite the larger window it seems to fail more often or ignore parts of the context window or just doesn't really answer the question.