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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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Is a VP of engineering “outsourcing their thinking” by having an org that can plan and write software?

Yes.

Interesting take. Does that mean SWE's are outsourcing their thinking by relying on management to run the company, designers to do UX, support folks to handle customers?

Or is thinking about source code line by line the only valid form of thinking in the world?

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

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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.

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

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Offtopic: I find it remarkable the shortened YT url has a tracking cost of 57% extra length. We live in stupid times.

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.

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

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Offtopic: I find it remarkable the shortened YT url has a tracking cost of 57% extra length. We live in stupid times.

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.

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

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If it's not coding, even with 200k context it starts to write gibberish, even with the correct information in the context. I tried to ask questions about path of exile 2. And even with web research on it gave completely wrong information... Not only outdated. Wrong I think context decay is a bigger problem then we feel like.

It could also be a skill problem. It would be more helpful if when people made llm sucks claims they shared their prompt. The people I work with who complain about this type of thing horribly communicate their ask to the llm and expect it to read their minds.

I don't really understand what you mean by this. The claim is that the same prompt with the same question produces worse results when it's queried in a model that has more than 200k tokens in its context. That doesn't have to do much with the "skillfulness" of using a model.

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

#397

> Standard pricing now applies across the full 1M window for both models, with no long-context premium. Does that mean it's likely not a Transformer with quadratic attention, but some other kind of architecture, with linear time complexity in sequence length? That would be pretty interesting.

They're probably taking shortcuts such as taking advantage of sparsity. There are various tricks like that mentioned in some papers, although the big companies are getting more and more secretive about how their models work so you won't necessarily find proof.

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

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The weirdest thing about Claude pricing is their 5X pricing plan is 5 times the cost of the previous plan. Normally buying the bigger plan gives some sort of discount. At Claude, it's just "5 times more usage 5 times more cost, there you go".

Yeah the free lunch on tokens is almost over. Get them while they’re still cheap

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

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Context decay is noticeable within 3 messages, nearly every time. Maybe not substantial, but definitely noticeable. It’s lead to me starting new chats with bigger and bigger starting ‘summary, prompts to catch the model up while refreshing it. Surely there’s a way to automate that technique.

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

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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.

Not a bot, just annoyed at disrespectful people.
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