> Gemini's 1M token context window is really unbeatable.
How does that work in practice? Swallowing a full 1M context window would take in the order of minutes, no? Is it possible to do this for, say, an entire codebase and then cache the results?
How does that work in practice? Swallowing a full 1M context window would take in the order of minutes, no? Is it possible to do this for, say, an entire codebase and then cache the results?
Caching a code base is tricky, because whenever you modify the code base, you're invalidating parts of the cache and due to conditional probability any changed tokens will change the results.
Then start over again to clean things out. It's not flawless, but it is surprising what it'll remember from a while back in the conversation.
I've been meaning to pick up some of the more automated tooling and editors, but for the phase of the project I'm in right now, it's unnecessary and the web UI or the Claude app are good enough for what I'm doing.