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Context, Drift, and the Illusion of Intent

Why Language Models Still Don’t Know What You Mean

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Erik J Larson
Jul 25, 2025
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Hi everyone,

In this post, I introduce a longstanding thorn in the side of AI scientists working to extend the power of large language models. I haven’t settled on a perfect name for it yet, but we can gloss it as the persistence/adaptability tradeoff: we want models that can fluidly adapt to changing contexts, but we also want them to remember the conte…

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