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		MagicMoonlight 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context It’s a stupid metric because nothing in the real world has half a million words of context. So all they’re doing is feeding it imagined slop, or sticking together random files.

zaptrem 8 months ago [–]

It's useful for hours-long long-context debugging sessions in Claude Code, etc.

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