The net effect won’t be a memory use reduction to achieve the same thing. We’ll do more with the same amount of memory. Companies will increase the context windows of their offerings and people will use it.

That is the sad reality of the future of memory.

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ehnto 14 hours ago | parent [-]

I am not convinced that more context will be useful, practical use of current models at 1mil context window shows they get less effective as the window grows. Given model progress is slowing as well, perhaps we end up reaching a balance of context size and competency sooner than expected.

	▲	tuetuopay 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Stuff in more code. Stuff in more system prompt. Stuff in raw utf8 characters instead of tokens to fix strawberries. Stuff in WAY more reasoning steps. Given the current tech, I also doubt there will be practical uses and I hope we’ll see the opposite of what I wrote. But given the current industry, I fully trust them so somehow fill their hardware. Market history shows us than when the cost of something goes down, we do more with the same amount, not the same thing with less. But I deeply hope to be wrong here and the memory market will relax.