The Context Window # The name comes from a technical concept. In AI, the context window is the boundary of what a model can hold in mind at once. Everything it can see, reason about, and respond to. Outside the window, nothing exists. Inside, everything does. I liked the metaphor too much to leave it to the engineers. They have enough nice things.
About Me # I came to technology sideways, through music, art, and a persistent need to understand how things work under the hood. For years I worked as a software engineer and systems administrator. I got good at the craft. But what kept pulling me forward wasn’t the code itself. It was the moment when a system starts to feel alive. When the machine stops being a tool and becomes something closer to a collaborator.