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Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform

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Re: Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform

#21

I want to really get into anthropic. For context: I have background in CV and ML in general. Currently reviewing and revising RL. Any idea how I can get into RL? I have 3 years of industry/research experience. Whenever I see post like this, it triggers a massive fomo creating a scene of urgency on I should work in these problems. Not being able to work here is making be anxious. what does it take for someone in Non-U…

I'll address something else: Fomo is usually a symptom of an underlying deeper issue. Long before Anthropic/Openai, we had these same posts about people desperately wanting to get into Google. They got unhealthy obsessed about this goal that they started prepping for months, even years, documenting their journey on blogs only to get rejected by someone who spent 2 seconds on their application. Getting in is more about luck than most people realize. Once you're in, you had for a long time a skewed romanticized fantasy of what it's like to work at this mythical company (Anthropic isn't a startup by any stretch anymore) only to crash hard and realize it is a classic corporate environment.

Re: Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform

#22

I want to really get into anthropic. For context: I have background in CV and ML in general. Currently reviewing and revising RL. Any idea how I can get into RL? I have 3 years of industry/research experience. Whenever I see post like this, it triggers a massive fomo creating a scene of urgency on I should work in these problems. Not being able to work here is making be anxious. what does it take for someone in Non-U…

It may be harsh but the reality is, if you have to ask you’re likely not a viable candidate.

The leading AI companies have the kind of capital to be able to hire the very best of the industry. If you’re only just starting now and even worse yet need your hand held to do so you’re totally out of the running…

Re: Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform

#25

I want to really get into anthropic. For context: I have background in CV and ML in general. Currently reviewing and revising RL. Any idea how I can get into RL? I have 3 years of industry/research experience. Whenever I see post like this, it triggers a massive fomo creating a scene of urgency on I should work in these problems. Not being able to work here is making be anxious. what does it take for someone in Non-U…

It may be harsh but the reality is, if you have to ask you’re likely not a viable candidate. The leading AI companies have the kind of capital to be able to hire the very best of the industry. If you’re only just starting now and even worse yet need your hand held to do so you’re totally out of the running…

so what would be wise to do in this situation? leave the hope and surrender or completely start out and work in a nascent field?

Re: Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform

#26

I don’t get it. I have been doing something similar for a month with opencode, is the new thing that the new sonnet model is fine tuned to call these tools “better” or simply that they have improved the devex to accomplish these things?

> I don’t get it. I have been doing something similar for a month with opencode, is the new thing that the new sonnet model is fine tuned to call these tools “better” or simply that they have improved the devex to accomplish these things?

They fine tuned 4.5 to have `clear_tool_uses` marker tools that it understands without regressing the quality of future responses. You will however pay for the cache invalidation hit anyways, so it would need some evaluations how much this helps.

Re: Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform

#28
post #7

Nice. When using OpenAI Codex CLI, I find the /compact command very useful for large tasks. In a way it's similar to the context editing tool. Maybe I can ask it to use a dedicated directory to simulate the memory tool.

Claude Code already compacts automatically.

I believe Codex CLI also auto compacts when the context limit is met, but in addition to that, you can manually issue a /compact command at any time.

Re: Managing context on the Claude Developer Platform

#29
post #7

Nice. When using OpenAI Codex CLI, I find the /compact command very useful for large tasks. In a way it's similar to the context editing tool. Maybe I can ask it to use a dedicated directory to simulate the memory tool.

Claude Code already compacts automatically.

CC also has the same `/compact` command if you want to force it
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