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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 therealdrag0 »

vips7L wrote: post #180
andrewstuart wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let’s just clear this up …….. are you commenting with experience using the latest Claude, or are you commenting from personal beliefs. It’s fine for you to take a stand, but please understand your position is simply factually wrong if you think you can outprogram Claude for a range of common tasks. Being anti AI is fine, but if you deny facts of how far LLM programming has come then you lack credibility. The most eff…

I absolutely can out program Claude. I can factually guarantee that. You’re factually wrong in your belief that you think a statistical model that scientifically takes the average of programming is better than those of us that actually know what we’re doing. Programming is not hard. You’re just lazy.

It’s not that hard and yet Claude can’t do it?

Why should I spend my mental energy doing simple things just to avoid being perceived as “lazy”? I have endless other engineering work to do other than typing code.

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

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Post by make_it_sure »

jeremychone wrote: post #419

Interesting, I’ve never needed 1M, or even 250k+ context. I’m usually under 100k per request. About 80% of my code is AI-generated, with a controlled workflow using dev-chat.md and spec.md. I use Flash for code maps and auto-context, and GPT-4.5 or Opus for coding, all via API with a custom tool. Gemini Pro and Flash have had 1M context for a long time, but even though I use Flash 3 a lot, and it’s awesome, I’ve neve…

very interested in this approach and many other people are for sure. Please do a blog post.

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

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Post by tontinton »

jeremychone wrote: post #419

Interesting, I’ve never needed 1M, or even 250k+ context. I’m usually under 100k per request. About 80% of my code is AI-generated, with a controlled workflow using dev-chat.md and spec.md. I use Flash for code maps and auto-context, and GPT-4.5 or Opus for coding, all via API with a custom tool. Gemini Pro and Flash have had 1M context for a long time, but even though I use Flash 3 a lot, and it’s awesome, I’ve neve…

Yeah we all converge to the same workflow, in my ai coding agent I'm working on now, I've added an "index" tool that uses tree-sitter to compress and show the AI a skeleton of a code file.

Here's the implementation for the interested: https://github.com/tontinton/maki/blob/main/maki-code-index%...

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

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Post by dahart »

alecco wrote: post #393
dahart wrote: post #375

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I care about the privacy implications, but not the length. Out of curiosity, why do you care about the URL length at all? What is the cost to you?

My point is Google engineers go to the trouble of setting up a URL shortener service on one hand, but on the other hand it seems ad the business anti-privacy executives can override anything. This points out it's a dysfunctional company.

You’d rather have the video code and the tracking code baked into the same code just to save a couple of characters? Why? That would result in a longer code than the video code alone, you would save very few characters. It would not be nicer to look at or functionally any different, and it would obscure the fact that it’s being tracked and prevent people from being able to edit the URL to remove the tracking. I appreciate the fact that I can see that the URL has a tracking ID and that I can edit the URL and remove the tracking ID. I do not want a shorter URL if I lose that ability. What you’re complaining about and wishing for would be MUCH worse than what it currently is.

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

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Post by rafael-lua »

jeremychone wrote: post #419

Interesting, I’ve never needed 1M, or even 250k+ context. I’m usually under 100k per request. About 80% of my code is AI-generated, with a controlled workflow using dev-chat.md and spec.md. I use Flash for code maps and auto-context, and GPT-4.5 or Opus for coding, all via API with a custom tool. Gemini Pro and Flash have had 1M context for a long time, but even though I use Flash 3 a lot, and it’s awesome, I’ve neve…

Well, out of all the workflows I have seen, this one is rather nice, might give it a try.

I imagine if the context were being commited and kept up-to-date with CI would work for others to use as well.

However, I'm a little confused on the autocontext/globs narrowing part. Do you, the developer, provide them? Or you feed the full code map to flash + your prompt so it returns the globs based on your prompt?

Also, in general, is your map of a file relatively smaller than the file itself, even for very small files?

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

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Post by dahart »

tarbyqualia wrote: post #395
dahart wrote: post #375

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I care about the privacy implications, but not the length. Out of curiosity, why do you care about the URL length at all? What is the cost to you?

For the same reason people use link shorteners at all. It’s much more pleasant to look at and makes people more likely to press it compared to a paragraph-long URL full of tracking garbage.

Please. The URL above is pretty short, this is not the kind of URL link shorteners were made for, in fact it’s already shortened, as @alecco pointed out.

Pleasant? I could not care less about the pleasantness of the video code, but a shortened URL in this case would not be more pleasant, and it would be functionally worse, and barely shorter; all you’d be able to trim is the “?si=“. I’m baffled by this thread.

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

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Post by jeremychone »

tontinton wrote: post #473
jeremychone wrote: post #419

Interesting, I’ve never needed 1M, or even 250k+ context. I’m usually under 100k per request. About 80% of my code is AI-generated, with a controlled workflow using dev-chat.md and spec.md. I use Flash for code maps and auto-context, and GPT-4.5 or Opus for coding, all via API with a custom tool. Gemini Pro and Flash have had 1M context for a long time, but even though I use Flash 3 a lot, and it’s awesome, I’ve neve…

Yeah we all converge to the same workflow, in my ai coding agent I'm working on now, I've added an "index" tool that uses tree-sitter to compress and show the AI a skeleton of a code file. Here's the implementation for the interested: https://github.com/tontinton/maki/blob/main/maki-code-index%...

Oh, that's great.

I've always wanted to explore how to fit tree-sitter into this workflow. It's great to know that this works well too.

Thanks for sharing the code.

(Here is the AIPack runtime I built, MIT: https://github.com/aipack-ai/aipack), and here is the code for pro@coder (https://github.com/aipack-ai/packs-pro/tree/main/pro/coder) (AIPack is in Rust, and AI Packs are in md / lua)

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

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Post by jeremychone »

CuriouslyC wrote: post #461
jeremychone wrote: post #419

Interesting, I’ve never needed 1M, or even 250k+ context. I’m usually under 100k per request. About 80% of my code is AI-generated, with a controlled workflow using dev-chat.md and spec.md. I use Flash for code maps and auto-context, and GPT-4.5 or Opus for coding, all via API with a custom tool. Gemini Pro and Flash have had 1M context for a long time, but even though I use Flash 3 a lot, and it’s awesome, I’ve neve…

1M context is super useful with Gemini, not so much for coding, but for data analysis.

Even there, I use AI to augment rows and build the code to put data into Json or Polars and create a quick UI to query the data.

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

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Post by slopinthebag »

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…

> It was also the first AI I felt, "Damn, this thing is smarter than me."

Sounds like it is.

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

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Post by alecco »

dahart wrote: post #474
alecco wrote: post #393

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My point is Google engineers go to the trouble of setting up a URL shortener service on one hand, but on the other hand it seems ad the business anti-privacy executives can override anything. This points out it's a dysfunctional company.

You’d rather have the video code and the tracking code baked into the same code just to save a couple of characters? Why? That would result in a longer code than the video code alone, you would save very few characters. It would not be nicer to look at or functionally any different, and it would obscure the fact that it’s being tracked and prevent people from being able to edit the URL to remove the tracking. I appre…

I didn't say that.
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