Token Ceilings: How Context Window Constraints Are Quietly Undermining Enterprise AI Deployments
Context windows have emerged as one of the most consequential and least discussed bottlenecks in production AI systems, quietly throttling performance in applications ranging from document analysis to multi-turn customer service automation. As organizations scale their deployments beyond proof-of-concept, the engineering decisions made around context management are proving as critical as any other infrastructure choice. This article examines why the constraint matters, how teams are working arou