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Re:Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context by dmitrygr on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @02:19PM (#44879967)
> For me it’s meant a huge increase in productivity, at least 3X.

Quote possibly you are doing very common things that are often done and thus are in the training set a lot, the parent post is doing something more novel that forces the model to extrapolate, which they suck at.

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Re:Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context by cambaceres on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @02:58PM (#44880422)
Sure, I won’t argue against that. The more complex (and fun) parts of the applications I tend to write myself. The productivity gains are still real though.
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