hallucination — When a model states something false with full confidence — inventing facts, citations, or APIs that don't exist.
LLM — A large language model — the neural network behind tools like Claude and ChatGPT, trained on huge amounts of text to predict what comes next.
context window — The maximum amount of text a model can consider at once — its working memory for the current conversation or task.
embedding — A list of numbers representing a piece of text's meaning, so that similar meanings end up numerically close and can be searched.
Why it matters
It turns an oversized label set from a context windowThe maximum amount of text a model can consider at once — its working memory for the current conversation or task.Full definition → problem into an embeddingA list of numbers representing a piece of text's meaning, so that similar meanings end up numerically close and can be searched.Full definition → lookup, which is directly reusable by anyone classifying against a taxonomy too large to fit in a prompt.