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Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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use AI to rewrite all the spells from all the books, then try to see if AI can detect the rewritten ones. This will ensure it's not pulling from it's trained data set.

Neat idea, but why should I use AI for a find and replace? It feels like shooting a fly with a bazooka

it's like hiring someone to come pick up your trash from your house and put it on the curb.

it's fine if you're disabled

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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Epic, about 2/3 of all comments here are jokes. Not because the model is a joke - it's impressive. Not because HN turned to Reddit. It seems to me some of most brilliant minds in IT are just getting tired.

A worthwhile task for the Opus 4.6:

Complete the sentence: "Brilliant marathon runners don't run on crutches, they use their own legs. By analogy, brilliant minds..."

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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Just tested the new Opus 4.6 (1M context) on a fun needle-in-a-haystack challenge: finding every spell in all Harry Potter books. All 7 books come to ~1.75M tokens, so they don't quite fit yet. (At this rate of progress, mid-April should do it ) For now you can fit the first 4 books (~733K tokens). Results: Opus 4.6 found 49 out of 50 officially documented spells across those 4 books. The only miss was "Slugulus Eruc…

There are websites with the spells listed... which makes this a search problem. Why is an LLM used here?

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

#775

Earlier quoted context omitted.

use AI to rewrite all the spells from all the books, then try to see if AI can detect the rewritten ones. This will ensure it's not pulling from it's trained data set.

Neat idea, but why should I use AI for a find and replace? It feels like shooting a fly with a bazooka

do you know all the spells you're looking for from memory?

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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post #482

Just tested the new Opus 4.6 (1M context) on a fun needle-in-a-haystack challenge: finding every spell in all Harry Potter books. All 7 books come to ~1.75M tokens, so they don't quite fit yet. (At this rate of progress, mid-April should do it ) For now you can fit the first 4 books (~733K tokens). Results: Opus 4.6 found 49 out of 50 officially documented spells across those 4 books. The only miss was "Slugulus Eruc…

There are websites with the spells listed... which makes this a search problem. Why is an LLM used here?

It's just a benchmark test excersize.

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

#777

Earlier quoted context omitted.

use AI to rewrite all the spells from all the books, then try to see if AI can detect the rewritten ones. This will ensure it's not pulling from it's trained data set.

Neat idea, but why should I use AI for a find and replace? It feels like shooting a fly with a bazooka

You're missing the point, it's only a testing excersize for the new model.

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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Why does it matter if Claude Code opens in 3-4 seconds if everything you do with it can take many seconds to minutes? Seems irrelevant to me.

This is exactly the type of thing that AI code writers don't do well - understand the prioritization of feature development. Some developers say 3-4 seconds are important to them, others don't. Who decides what the truth is? A human? ClawdBot?

> Some developers say 3-4 seconds are important to them, others don't.

Wasnt GTA 5 famous for very long start up time and turns out there some bug which some random developer/gamer found out and gave them a fix?

Most Gamers didnt care, they still played it.

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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Epic, about 2/3 of all comments here are jokes. Not because the model is a joke - it's impressive. Not because HN turned to Reddit. It seems to me some of most brilliant minds in IT are just getting tired.

It's too much energy to keep up with things that become obsolete and get replaced in matters of weeks/months. My current plan is to ignore all of this new information for a while, then whenever the race ends and some winning new workflow/technology will actually become the norm I'll spend the time needed to learn it. Are we moving to some new paradigm same way we did when we invented compilers? Amazing, let me know w…

Won't happen.

Welcome the singularity so many were so eagerly welcoming.

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