Context Is Software, Weights Are Hardware
by maxaravind on 4/19/2026, 12:29:35 PM
https://www.aravindjayendran.com/writing/context-is-not-learning
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by: maxaravind
Author here.<p>I spent the last weekend thinking about continual learning. A lot of people think that we can solve long term memory and learning in LLMs by simply extending the context length to infinity. I analyse a different perspective that challenges this assumption.<p>Let me know how you think about this.
4/19/2026, 12:30:10 PM