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@OpenAI To be clear, I don't recommend increasing the default context size in Co

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Noam Brown explicitly advises against increasing the default context size in OpenAI's Codex. Read alongside his earlier comment about the million-token option, this separates availability from recommendation: he acknowledged the larger setting without endorsing it as the default. The clarification gives no workload comparison or technical explanation for that preference.

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context window — The maximum amount of text a model can consider at once — its working memory for the current conversation or task.
token — The chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.