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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 hewasahaterboy »

vips7L wrote: post #207
thatguymike wrote: post #195

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That’s… not how the labour market works

Of course. That’s because the labor market prefers cost over quality. The labour market will always prefer cheap and fast code that works at first glance. That is how capitalism works. That has nothing to do with my capabilities. It has nothing to do with the fact that I will always outperform a shitty statistical model. It has everything to do with the fact that most of you are too lazy to think. It has everything t…

I think you need to take a deep breath and calm down.

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

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Post by gregharned »

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

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Post by Bolwin »

hu3 wrote: post #92
mgambati wrote: post #86

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1m context in OpenAI and Gemini is just marketing. Opus is the only model to provide real usable bug context.

Source? I ask because I use 500k+ context on these on a daily basis. Big refactorings guided by automated tests eat context window for breakfast.

How many big refactorings are you doing? And why?

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

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Post by vips7L »

hewasahaterboy wrote: post #221
vips7L wrote: post #207

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course. That’s because the labor market prefers cost over quality. The labour market will always prefer cheap and fast code that works at first glance. That is how capitalism works. That has nothing to do with my capabilities. It has nothing to do with the fact that I will always outperform a shitty statistical model. It has everything to do with the fact that most of you are too lazy to think. It has everything t…

I think you need to take a deep breath and calm down.

Perfectly calm mate. Maybe you should try to factually argue against my position? Probably not though. Your account was created 30 minutes ago and likely a bot.

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

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Post by imposter »

syntaxing wrote: post #144

It’s interesting because my career went from doing higher level language (Python) to lower language (C++ and C). Opus and the like is amazing at Python, honestly sometimes better than me but it does do some really stupid architectural decisions occasionally. But when it comes to embedded stuff, it’s still like a junior engineer. Unsure if that will ever change but I wonder if it’s just the quality and availability of…

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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 __mharrison__ »

extr wrote: post #192
sarchertech wrote: post #142

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What kinds of things are you building? This is not my experience at all. Just today I asked Claude using opus 4.6 to build out a test harness for a new dynamic database diff tool. Everything seemed to be fine but it built a test suite for an existing diff tool. It set everything up in the new directory, but it was actually testing code and logic from a preexisting directory despite the plan being correct before I tol…

You probably just don't have the hang of it yet. It's very good but it's not a mind reader and if you have something specific you want, it's best to just articulate that exactly as best you can ("I want a test harness for , which you can find "). You need to explain that you want tests that assert on observable outcomes and state, not internal structure, use real objects not mocks, property based testing for invarian…

Pretty good workflow. But you need to change the order of the tests and have it write the tests first. (TDD)

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

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Post by stahtops »

sho wrote: post #171
furyofantares wrote: post #135

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When Anthropic said they wouldn't sell LLMs to the government for mass surveillance or autonomous killing machines, and got labeled a supply chain risk as a result, OpenAI told the public they have the same policy as Anthropic while inking a deal with the government that clearly means "actually we will sell you LLMs for mass surveillance or autonomous killing machines but only if you tell us it's legal". If you alrea…

I'm not some kind of OpenAI or Pentagon fanboy, but it's pretty easy to for me to understand why a buyer of a critical technology wants to be free to use it however they want, within the law, and not subject to veto from another entity's political opinions. It sounds perfectly reasonable to me for the military to want to decide its uses of technologies it purchases itself. It's not like the military was specifically…

Why downplay the mass surveillance aspect by saying it's a request by "the military". It's a request by the department of defense, the parent organization of the NSA.

From what has been shared publicly, they absolutely did ask for contractual limits on domestic mass surveillance to be removed, and to my read, likely technical/software restrictions to be removed as well.

What the department of defense is legally allowed to do is irrelevant and a red herring.

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

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Post by Trufa »

nullpoint420 wrote: post #188
ex-aws-dude wrote: post #159

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I've had a similar experience as a graphics programmer that works in C++ every day Writing quick python scripts works a lot better than niche domain specific code

Unfortunately, I’ve found it’s really good at Wayland and OpenGL. It even knows how to use Clutter and Meta frameworks from the Gnome Mutter stack. Makes me wonder why I learned this all in the first place.

To being able to determine it's really good.
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