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context-window
2 free lessons tagged context-window across AI. Each one is a short sequence of focused steps with narration and a five-question quiz at the end — take them in any order, no signup required.
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advancedThe Options Nobody Compares, and Changing Your Mind
The fine-tuning versus retrieval framing hides several options that are often better than either. This lesson covers long context and why it does not replace retrieval, prompt caching as a cost lever, agentic retrieval, continued pretraining, and how to revisit a decision that was right when you made it.
8 steps·~12 min
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advancedContext Engineering for Long-Running Agents
How to manage, compress, and strategically fill the context window in long-horizon agents — covering summarization checkpoints, scratchpad memory, retrieval injection, prompt caching, and compaction triggers.
12 steps·~18 min