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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 injidup »

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…

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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 eru »

hvb2 wrote: post #191
eru wrote: post #161

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> I’m honestly uncertain about the junior engineers I’m working with who are more productive than they might be otherwise, but are gaining zero (or very little) experience. Well, (economic) progress means being able to do more with less. A Fordian-style conveyor belt factory can churn out cars with relatively unskilled labour. Economising on human capital is economising on a scarce input. We had these kinds of shifts…

> Yes, these things do best when they have a (simulated) environment they can make mistakes in and that can give them clear and fast feedback. This always felt like a reason to throw it at coding. With its rigid syntax you'll know quickly and cheaply if what was written passes an absolute minimaal level of quality.

Well, rigid syntax, type checkers, automated tests, etc. They all help.

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

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Post by copperx »

unshavedyak wrote: post #198
dyauspitr wrote: post #166

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I don’t know if Opus is AGI but on a broader note, that’s how we will get AGI. Not some consciousness like people are expecting. It’s just going to be chatbot that’s very hard to stump and starts making actual scientific breakthroughs and solving long standing problems.

I'll be more likely to agree with anything being AGI if it doesn't have such obvious and common brittleness. These LLMs all go off the rails when the context window gets large. Their context is also easy to "poison", and so it's better to rollback conversations that went bad rather than trying to steer them back to the light. There's probably more examples, but to me AGI must move beyond the above issues. Though fran…

How are you rolling back a conversation? I didn't know tools exposed that functionality.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

koreth1 wrote: post #139
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 wish I had this kind of experience. I threw a tedious but straightforward task at Claude Code using Opus 4.6 late last week: find the places in a React code base where we were using useState and useEffect to calculate a value that was purely dependent on the inputs to useEffect, and replace them with useMemo. I told it to be careful to only replace cases where the change did not introduce any behavior changes, and…

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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 isbvhodnvemrwvn »

raldi wrote: post #212
ai_fry_ur_brain wrote: post #211

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

What evidence would convince you otherwise?

Session dumps would be nice.

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

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Post by olalonde »

epicureanideal wrote: post #219
shujito wrote: post #213

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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.

Yep, software specs or requirements[0]. Thanks to LLMs it's easy to look up acronyms, but still, it feels like there's an uptick of them on HN[1]...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_requirements_specific...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323316 who the hell knows that version of "RSI"?

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

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Post by dev_l1x_be »

MikeNotThePope wrote: post #20
dimitri-vs wrote: post #3

The big change here is: > Standard pricing now applies across the full 1M window for both models, with no long-context premium. Media limits expand to 600 images or PDF pages. For Claude Code users this is huge - assuming coherence remains strong past 200k tok.

Is it ever useful to have a context window that full? I try to keep usage under 40%, or about 80k tokens, to avoid what Dex Horthy calls the dumb zone in his research-plan-implement approach. Works well for me so far. No vibes allowed: https://youtu.be/rmvDxxNubIg?is=adMmmKdVxraYO2yQ

I never use these giant context windows. It is pointless. Agents are great at super focused work that is easy to re-do. Not sure what is the use case for giant context windows.

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Post by isbvhodnvemrwvn »

acjohnson55 wrote: post #111
dathery wrote: post #80

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That's correct. Input caching helps, but even then at e.g. 800k tokens with all of them cached, the API price is $0.50 * 0.8 = $0.40 per request, which adds up really fast. A "request" can be e.g. a single tool call response, so you can easily end up making many $0.40 requests per minute.

Interesting, so a prompt that causes a couple dozen tool calls will end up costing in the tens of dollars?

Not necessarily, take a look at ex OpenApi Responses resource, you can get multiple tool calls in one response and of course reply with multiple results.
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