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1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6

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Re: 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6

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Post by ai_fry_ur_brain »

Frannky wrote: post #117

Opus 4.6 is nuts. Everything I throw at it works. Frontend, backend, algorithms—it does not matter. I start with a PRD, ask for a step-by-step plan, and just execute on each step at a time. Sometimes ideas are dumb, but checking and guiding step by step helps it ship working things in hours. It was also the first AI I felt, "Damn, this thing is smarter than me." The other crazy thing is that with today's tech, these…

Im convinced everyone saying this is building the simplest web apps, and doing magic tricks on themselves.

Re: 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6

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Post by raldi »

ai_fry_ur_brain wrote: post #211
Frannky wrote: post #117

Opus 4.6 is nuts. Everything I throw at it works. Frontend, backend, algorithms—it does not matter. I start with a PRD, ask for a step-by-step plan, and just execute on each step at a time. Sometimes ideas are dumb, but checking and guiding step by step helps it ship working things in hours. It was also the first AI I felt, "Damn, this thing is smarter than me." The other crazy thing is that with today's tech, these…

Im convinced everyone saying this is building the simplest web apps, and doing magic tricks on themselves.

What evidence would convince you otherwise?

Re: 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6

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Post by shujito »

olalonde wrote: post #210
Frannky wrote: post #117

Opus 4.6 is nuts. Everything I throw at it works. Frontend, backend, algorithms—it does not matter. I start with a PRD, ask for a step-by-step plan, and just execute on each step at a time. Sometimes ideas are dumb, but checking and guiding step by step helps it ship working things in hours. It was also the first AI I felt, "Damn, this thing is smarter than me." The other crazy thing is that with today's tech, these…

> PRD Is it Baader-Meinhof or is everyone on HN suddenly using obscure acronyms?

It stands for Product Requirements Document, it is something commonly used in project planning and management.

Re: 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6

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Post by fooker »

Frannky wrote: post #117

Opus 4.6 is nuts. Everything I throw at it works. Frontend, backend, algorithms—it does not matter. I start with a PRD, ask for a step-by-step plan, and just execute on each step at a time. Sometimes ideas are dumb, but checking and guiding step by step helps it ship working things in hours. It was also the first AI I felt, "Damn, this thing is smarter than me." The other crazy thing is that with today's tech, these…

I have a PhD in a niche field and this can do my job ;)

Not sure if this means I should get a more interesting job or if we are all going to be at the mercy of UBI eventually.

Re: 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6

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Post by suzzer99 »

fooker wrote: post #214
Frannky wrote: post #117

Opus 4.6 is nuts. Everything I throw at it works. Frontend, backend, algorithms—it does not matter. I start with a PRD, ask for a step-by-step plan, and just execute on each step at a time. Sometimes ideas are dumb, but checking and guiding step by step helps it ship working things in hours. It was also the first AI I felt, "Damn, this thing is smarter than me." The other crazy thing is that with today's tech, these…

I have a PhD in a niche field and this can do my job ;) Not sure if this means I should get a more interesting job or if we are all going to be at the mercy of UBI eventually.

We're never getting UBI. See the latest interview with the Palantir CEO where he talks about white collar workers having to take more hands-on jobs that they may not feel as satisfied with. IE - tending their manors and compounds.

RIP widespread middle class. It was a good 80-year run.

Re: 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6

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Post by [deleted] »

olalonde wrote: post #210
Frannky wrote: post #117

Opus 4.6 is nuts. Everything I throw at it works. Frontend, backend, algorithms—it does not matter. I start with a PRD, ask for a step-by-step plan, and just execute on each step at a time. Sometimes ideas are dumb, but checking and guiding step by step helps it ship working things in hours. It was also the first AI I felt, "Damn, this thing is smarter than me." The other crazy thing is that with today's tech, these…

> PRD Is it Baader-Meinhof or is everyone on HN suddenly using obscure acronyms?

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Re: 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6

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Post by _heimdall »

fooker wrote: post #214
Frannky wrote: post #117

Opus 4.6 is nuts. Everything I throw at it works. Frontend, backend, algorithms—it does not matter. I start with a PRD, ask for a step-by-step plan, and just execute on each step at a time. Sometimes ideas are dumb, but checking and guiding step by step helps it ship working things in hours. It was also the first AI I felt, "Damn, this thing is smarter than me." The other crazy thing is that with today's tech, these…

I have a PhD in a niche field and this can do my job ;) Not sure if this means I should get a more interesting job or if we are all going to be at the mercy of UBI eventually.

An economy, and likely a society, fails if everyone is at the mercy of a UBI.

Re: 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6

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Post by bob1029 »

I've been avoiding context beyond 100k tokens in general. The performance is simply terrible. There's no training data for a megabyte of your very particular context.

If you are really interested in deep NIAH tasks, external symbolic recursion and self-similar prompts+tools are a much bigger unlock than more context window. Recursion and (most) tools tend to be fairly deterministic processes.

I generally prohibit tool calling in the first stack frame of complex agents in order to preserve context window for the overall task and human interaction. Most of the nasty token consumption happens in brief, nested conversations that pass summaries back up the call stack.

Re: 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6

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Post by epicureanideal »

shujito wrote: post #213
olalonde wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> PRD Is it Baader-Meinhof or is everyone on HN suddenly using obscure acronyms?

It stands for Product Requirements Document, it is something commonly used in project planning and management.

Maybe so, but personally it seemed to be referred to as a "specification" or "spec" for a long time, and then suddenly around maybe 5 years ago I started to hear people use "PRD". I'm not sure what caused the change.

Re: 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6

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Post by wetpaws »

Frannky wrote: post #117

Opus 4.6 is nuts. Everything I throw at it works. Frontend, backend, algorithms—it does not matter. I start with a PRD, ask for a step-by-step plan, and just execute on each step at a time. Sometimes ideas are dumb, but checking and guiding step by step helps it ship working things in hours. It was also the first AI I felt, "Damn, this thing is smarter than me." The other crazy thing is that with today's tech, these…

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