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Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context

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Re: Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context

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Post by zenoprax »

bcrosby95 wrote: post #353
zarzavat wrote: post #280

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Both modes of operation are useful. If you know how to do something, then you can give Claude the broad strokes of how you want it done and -- if you give enough detail -- hopefully it will come back with work similar to what you would have written. In this case it's saving you on the order of minutes, but those minutes add up. There is a possibility for negative time saving if it returns garbage. If you don't know h…

Claude will point you in the right neighborhood but to the wrong house. So if you're completely ignorant that's cool. But recognize that its probably wrong and only a starting point. Hell, I spent 3 hours "arguing" with Claude the other day in a new domain because my intuition told me something was true. I brought out all the technical reason why it was fine but Claude kept skirting around it saying the code change w…

> After spending extra time researching it I found out there was a technical term for it and when I brought that up Claude finally admitted defeat. It was being a persistent little fucker before then.

Whenever I feel like I need to write "Why aren't you listening to me?!" I know it's time for a walk and a change in strategy. It's also a good indicator that I'm changing too much at once and that my requirements are too poorly defined.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context

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Post by Aeolun »

apimade wrote: post #432
not_that_d wrote: post #304

My experience with the current tools so far: 1. It helps to get me going with new languages, frameworks, utilities or full green field stuff. After that I expend a lot of time parsing the code to understand what it wrote that I kind of "trust" it because it is too tedious but "it works". 2. When working with languages or frameworks that I know, I find it makes me unproductive, the amount of time I spend writing a goo…

Many who say LLMs produce “enterprise-grade” code haven’t worked in mid-tier or traditional companies, where projects are held together by duct tape, requirements are outdated, and testing barely exists. In those environments, enterprise-ready code is rare even without AI. For developers deeply familiar with a codebase they’ve worked on for years, LLMs can be a game-changer. But in most other cases, they’re best for…

Umm, Claude Code is a lot better than a lot of enterprise grade code I see. And it actually learns from mistakes with a properly crafted instruction xD

Re: Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context

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Post by swader999 »

spiderice wrote: post #194
EcommerceFlow wrote: post #26

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It does if you're working with bigger codebases. I've found copy/pasting my entire codebase + adding a works significantly better than cursor.

How does one even copy their entire codebase? Are you saying you attach all the files? Or you use some script to copy all the text to your clipboard? Or something else?

Repomix, there's a cli and an MCP.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context

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Post by psyclobe »

Isn’t Opus better? Whenever I run out of Opus tokens and get kicked down to Sonnet it’s quite a shock sometimes.

But man I’m at the perfect stage in my career for these tools. I know a lot, I understand a lot, I have a lot of great ideas-but I’m getting kinda tired of hammering out code all day long. Now with Claude I am just busting ass executing in all these ideas and tests and fixes-never going back!

Re: Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context

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Post by Aeolun »

delegate wrote: post #274
wiremine wrote: post #130

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> Having spent a couple of weeks on Claude Code recently, I arrived to the conclusion that the net value for me from agentic AI is actually negative. > For me it’s meant a huge increase in productivity, at least 3X. How do we reconcile these two comments? I think that's a core question of the industry right now. My take, as a CTO, is this: we're giving people new tools, and very little training on the techniques that…

Easy. You're 3x more productive for a while and then you burn yourself out. Or lose control of the codebase, which you no longer understand after weeks of vibing (since we can only think and accumulate knowledge at 1x). Sometimes the easy way out is throwing a week of generated code away and starting over. So that 3x doesn't come for free at all, besides API costs, there's the cost of quickly accumulating tech debt w…

> Or lose control of the codebase, which you no longer understand after weeks of vibing (since we can only think and accumulate knowledge at 1x).

I recognize this, but at the same time, I’m still better at rmembering the scope of the codebase than Claude is.

If Claude gets a 1M context window, we can start sticking a general overview of the codebase in every single prompt without.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context

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Post by msikora »

sdesol wrote: post #42
aliljet wrote: post #16

This is definitely one of my CORE problem as I use these tools for "professional software engineering." I really desperately need LLMs to maintain extremely effective context and it's not actually that interesting to see a new model that's marginally better than the next one (for my day-to-day). However. Price is king. Allowing me to flood the context window with my code base is great, but given that the price has su…

> I really desperately need LLMs to maintain extremely effective context I actually built this. I'm still not ready to say "use the tool yet" but you can learn more about it at https://github.com/gitsense/chat . The demo link is not up yet as I need to finalize an admin tool but you should be able to follow the npm instructions to play around with. The basic idea is, you should be able to load your entire repo or rep…

Why not build this as an MCP so that people can plug it into their favorite platform?

Re: Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context

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Post by aatd86 »

brulard wrote: post #412
not_that_d wrote: post #304

My experience with the current tools so far: 1. It helps to get me going with new languages, frameworks, utilities or full green field stuff. After that I expend a lot of time parsing the code to understand what it wrote that I kind of "trust" it because it is too tedious but "it works". 2. When working with languages or frameworks that I know, I find it makes me unproductive, the amount of time I spend writing a goo…

For me it was like this for like a year (using Cline + Sonnet & Gemini) until Claude Code came out and until I learned how to keep context real clean. The key breakthrough was treating AI as an architect/implementer rather than a code generator. Most recently I ask first CC to create a design document for what we are going to do. He has instructions to look into the relevant parts of the code and docs to reference th…

For me it's the opposite. As long as I ask for small tasks, or error checking, it can help. But I'd rather think of the overall design myself because I tend to figure out corner cases or superlinear complexities much better. I develop better mental models than the NNs. That's somewhat of a relief.

Also the longer the conversation goes, the less effective it gets. (saturated context window?)

Re: Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context

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Post by hoppp »

not_that_d wrote: post #304

My experience with the current tools so far: 1. It helps to get me going with new languages, frameworks, utilities or full green field stuff. After that I expend a lot of time parsing the code to understand what it wrote that I kind of "trust" it because it is too tedious but "it works". 2. When working with languages or frameworks that I know, I find it makes me unproductive, the amount of time I spend writing a goo…

I used it with Tyopescript and Go, SQL, Rust

Using it with rust is just horrible imho. Lots and lots of errors, I cant wait to stop this rust project already. But the project itself is quite complex

Go on the other hand is super productive, mainly because the language is already very simple. I can move 2x fast

Typescript is fine, I use it for react components and it will do animations Im lazy to do...

SQL and postgresql is fine, I can do it without it also, I just dont like to write stored functions cuz of the boilerplatey syntax, a little speed up saves me from carpal tunnel

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