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.
1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6
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#432Re: 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 Not only outdated.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.
Fwiw put a copy of the game folder in a directory and tell claude to extract game files and dissasemble the game in preparation for questions about the game. As an example of doing this in a session with jagged alliance 3 (an rpg) https://pastes.io/jagged-all-69136 Claude extracting game archives and dissasembling leads to far more reliable results than random internet posts.
Re: 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6
#434Interesting, 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…
So, small model figures out which files to use based on the code map, and then enriches with snippets, so big model ideally gets preloaded with relevant context / snippets up front?
Where does code map live? Is it one big file?
Re: 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6
#435Re: 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6
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That’s not context decay, that’s training data ambiguity. So much misinformation, nerfs, buffs, changes that an LLM can not keep up given the training time required. Do it for a game that has been stable and it knows its stuff.
It didnt gave outdated, on some cases it did, and with two tries telling it to search for updated information it got it right ( shouldn't need to do that though) but it also gave wrong information about sockets ( support skills) , which never existed or never were able to be socketed together in the first place. ( Ok maybe in 0.1, but that's what web search is for ... ) If it even can't handle easy versioned informat…
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I absolutely have the hang of Claude and I still find that it can make those ridiculous mistakes, like replicating logic into a test rather than testing a function directly, talking to a local pg that was stale/ running, etc. I have a ton of skills and pre-written prompts for testing practices but, over longer contexts, it will forget and do these things, or get confused, etc. You can minimize these problems with TLC…
My favorite is when you need to rebuild/restart outside of claude and it will "fix the bug" and argue with you about whether or not you actually rebuilt and restarted whatever it is you're working on. It would rather call you a liar than realize it didn't do anything.
Re: 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6
#438Interesting, 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…
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#439Earlier quoted context omitted.
> If you're not using AI you are cooked. You just don't realize it yet. Truth. But not just “using”. Because here’s where this ship has already landed: humans will not write code, humans will not review code. I see mostly rage against this idea, but it is already here. Resistance is futile. There will be no “hand crafted software” shops. You have at most 3-4 years left if you think this is your job.
Are you using AI to write this? Please stop.
Re: 1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6
#440Opus 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…
But does it still generate slop? I'm late to the party and I'm just getting started with Antrophic models. I have been finding Sonnet decent enough, but it seems to have trouble naming variables correctly (it's not just that most names are poor and undescriptive, sometimes it names it wrong, confusing) or sometimes unnecessarily declaring, re-declaring variables, encoding, decoding, rather than using the value that's…