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Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context

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Re: Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context

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This is definitely good to have this as an option but at the same time having more context reduces the quality of the output because it's easier for the LLM to get "distracted". So, I wonder what will happen to the quality of code produced by tools like Claude Code if users don't properly understand the trade off being made (if they leave it in auto mode of coding right up to the auto compact).

Re: Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context

#4

This is definitely good to have this as an option but at the same time having more context reduces the quality of the output because it's easier for the LLM to get "distracted". So, I wonder what will happen to the quality of code produced by tools like Claude Code if users don't properly understand the trade off being made (if they leave it in auto mode of coding right up to the auto compact).

What do you recommend doing instead? I've been using Claude Code a lot but am still pretty novice at the best practices around this.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context

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This is definitely good to have this as an option but at the same time having more context reduces the quality of the output because it's easier for the LLM to get "distracted". So, I wonder what will happen to the quality of code produced by tools like Claude Code if users don't properly understand the trade off being made (if they leave it in auto mode of coding right up to the auto compact).

Some reference:

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/29/how-to-fix-your-contex...

https://www.dbreunig.com/2025/06/22/how-contexts-fail-and-ho...

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