Encoding Your Domain Expert: The Context Layer Behind Spotify's Data Assistant
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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.
Why it matters
Schema alone makes a model confidently pick the wrong table. The fix is a curated, domain-owner-maintained context windowThe maximum amount of text a model can consider at once — its working memory for the current conversation or task.Full definition → layer over slices of the warehouse rather than more context window.
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