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by plandis 67 days ago
Claude Opus can use a 1M context window but I’ve found it to degrade significantly past 250k in practice.
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Seconded. I'm getting used to the changes that happen in the conversation now, and can work out when it's time for my little coding buddy to have a nap.

And Opus is absolutely terrible at guessing how many tokens it's used. Having that as a number that the model can access itself would be a real boon.

250k is still massively more than 100k and 1M prevents it from having to compact