How Are You Managing Your AI's Context Window?

Your AI coding agent has a 200K token context window. Maybe 500K. Maybe a million. So... what actually changed? Honestly, I'm still figuring that out. I expected bigger windows to deliver better results. The reality has been more nuanced. 1. The Window Got Bigger. Did Anything Actually Change? The narrative is seductive: "200K tokens! I can dump my entire codebase in there." "1M tokens? Every issue, every doc, every chat log." This is like saying "my hard drive is 2TB, so I'll keep every file on