Re:Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context
by chasd00 on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @03:15PM
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One thing to think about is many software devs have a very hard time with code they didn't write. I've seen many devs do a lot of work to change code to something equivalent (even with respect to performance and readability) only because it's not the way they would have done it. I could see people having a hard time using what the LLM produced without having to "fix it up" and basically re-write everything.
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Re:Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context
by jama211 on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @03:23PM
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Yeah sometimes I feel like a unicorn because I don’t really care about code at all, so long as it conforms to decent standards and does what it needs to do. I honestly believe engineers often overestimate the importance of elegance in code too, to the point of not realising the slow down of a project due to overly perfect code is genuinely not worth it.
Re:Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context
by parpfish on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @03:53PM
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i dont care if the code is elegant, i care that the code is consistent.
do the same thing in the same way each time and it lets you chunk it up and skim it much easier. if there are little differences each time, you have to keep asking yourself "is it done differently here for a particular reason?"
Re:Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context
by vanviegen on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @04:41PM
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Exactly! And besides that, new code being consistent with its surrounding code used to be a sign of careful craftsmanship (as opposed to spaghetti-against-the-wall style coding), giving me some confidence that the programmer may have considered at least the most important nasty edge cases. LLMs have rendered that signal mostly useless, of course.