Andy Halliday

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Well, both of them were major advances on their prior, you know.

prior models like 5.3 from open AI chat GPT is significantly better than 5.2.

And similarly, Claude 4.6 is significantly better than Claude 4.5.

And the Opus version of 4.6 now has a million token context window.

Yes.

Which is a big leap.

That's a big leap from 200,000 to 1 million context window.

Because one of the big things that's been an irritation in using Claude Code and other...

variants of that, including cowork importantly, is that you run into the limits, even on a paid plan, you'll be working on it.

And, you know, it's very competent and it can do dramatic things, but it's burning tokens and it reaches a context window and has to do a compaction.

And it's also counting all those tokens towards the limit of what you're allowed to use.

I'm hoping that the

The larger context window in Opus 4.6 means that if you select that model, you're not likely to run into those.

And maybe they have actually extended the limits as well.

I don't know.

I don't see any news about that yet.

But that would be a really important improvement to using Claude because we are getting rate limited.

So you like yesterday.

I'm going to ramble on here for a second about cloud because yesterday I was using, as I have been recently, I was using lovable to do the actual coding, you know, ultimately deployable platform for an application, but I'm using cloud cowork.