# Title Candidates

## Category 1: Descriptive (what the book is)

1. **Understanding LLM Context Windows: A Practical Guide**
2. **Context Windows Explained: Tokens, Limits, and Production Strategies**
3. **The LLM Context Window: What It Is, How It Fails, and How to Manage It**
4. **Mastering LLM Context: Tokens, Truncation, and RAG in Practice**

## Category 2: Problem-First (leads with the pain)

5. **Your LLM Is Forgetting Things. Here's Why.**
6. **The Silent Failure: What Happens When Your LLM Runs Out of Context**
7. **Why Your AI App Breaks After 20 Turns (And How to Fix It)**
8. **Context Overflow: The Hidden Reliability Problem in Production LLM Apps**
9. **When the Model Forgets: Managing Context Limits in Production**

## Category 3: Question / Curiosity-Gap

10. **What Does an LLM Actually See?**
11. **Why Does ChatGPT Forget the Beginning of Our Conversation?**
12. **How Much Can a Language Model Hold in Mind?**
13. **What Happens When You Give an LLM Too Much to Read?**

## Category 4: Metaphor

14. **Working Memory: A Developer's Guide to LLM Context**
15. **The Filing Cabinet Model: Understanding How LLMs Process Text**
16. **The Scratchpad and the Weights: Inside LLM Memory**
17. **Full Inbox: Managing Context in AI Applications**

## Category 5: Provocative / Opinionated

18. **Stop Throwing Tokens at the Problem**
19. **Bigger Context Windows Won't Save Your App**
20. **The Context Budget: Why LLM Reliability is an Engineering Problem**
21. **Precision Over Scale: A Practical Guide to LLM Context Management**
22. **The 80% Threshold: Building LLM Apps That Don't Silently Degrade**

## Category 6: Minimal / Technical

23. **LLM Context: Limits, Failures, and Fixes**
24. **Token Budgets and Context Windows**
25. **Context Management for Production LLM Systems**

---

## Recommendations

**For technical blog post / HN**: #7 "Why Your AI App Breaks After 20 Turns (And How to Fix It)"
**For O'Reilly-style book**: #3 "The LLM Context Window: What It Is, How It Fails, and How to Manage It"
**For short ebook / landing page**: #5 "Your LLM Is Forgetting Things. Here's Why."
**For workshop / course title**: #4 "Mastering LLM Context: Tokens, Truncation, and RAG in Practice"
