Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context

Re:Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context by jama211 on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @03:26PM (#44880790)

I dunno, first time I tried an LLM I was getting so annoyed because I just wanted it to go through a css file and replace all colours with variables defined in root, and it kept missing stuff and spinning and I was getting so frustrated. Then a friend told me I should instead just ask it to write a script which accomplishes that goal, and it did it perfectly in one prompt, then ran it for me, and also wrote another script to check it hadn’t missed any and ran that.

At no point when it was getting f stuck initially did it suggest another approach, or complain that it was outside its context window even though it was.

This is a perfect example of “knowing how to use an LLM” taking it from useless to useful.

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Re:Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context by abc_lisper on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @05:12PM (#44881844)

Which one did you use and when was this? I mean, no body gets anything working right the first time. You got to spend a few days atleast trying to understand the tool

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Re:Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context by jama211 on Thursday August 14, 2025 @04:02PM (#44904983)

It’s just a simple example of how knowing how to use a tool can make all the difference, and that can be improved upon with time. I’m not sure why you’re taking umbrage with that idea.

I know this style of arguing you’re going for. If I answer your questions, you’ll attack the specific model or use case I was in, or claim it was too simple/basic a use case, or some other nitpick about the specifics instead of in good faith attempting to take my point as stated. I won’t allow you to force control of the frame of the conversation by answering your questions, also because the answers wouldn’t do anything to change the spirit of my main point.

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Re:Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context by jama211 on Friday August 15, 2025 @02:22AM (#44909182)

(Inb4 “you won’t tell me because it’s a crap model or some other petty excuse” - FYI, it wasn’t)

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