context window — The maximum amount of text a model can consider at once — its working memory for the current conversation or task.
Why it matters
Factory lays out why coding agents underperform on real codebases: models get task descriptions and files but miss the historical, architectural, and collaborative context windowThe maximum amount of text a model can consider at once — its working memory for the current conversation or task.Full definition → human developers rely on, and describes the scaffolding it built to close that gap.
