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> Anthropic just came out and yolo'd the context window because they could afford to I don’t think this is true at all. The reason CC is so good is that they’r
by Aeolun 1y ago
> Anthropic just came out and yolo'd the context window because they could afford to
I don’t think this is true at all. The reason CC is so good is that they’re very deliberate about what goes in the context. CC often spends ages reading 5 LOC snippets, but afterwards it only has relevant stuff in context.
- ec109685 1y agoBackground of how it works: https://kirshatrov.com/posts/claude-code-internals https://kirshatrov.com/posts/claude-code-internals Prompt: https://gist.github.com/transitive-bullshit/487c9cb52c75a9701d312334ed53b20c https://gist.github.com/transitive-bullshit/487c9cb52c75a970...
- RainyDayTmrw 1y agoI'm always surprised how short system prompts are. It makes me wonder where the rest of the app's behavior is encoded.
- ec109685 1y agoLots and lots of reinforcement training.
- manmal 1y agoAlso check out claude-trace, which injects fetch hooks to get at the data: https://github.com/badlogic/lemmy/tree/main/apps/claude-trace https://github.com/badlogic/lemmy/tree/main/apps/claude-trac...
- anon7000 1y agoI’ve definitely observed that CC is waaaay slower than cursor
- nsonha 1y agoHeard a lot of this context bs parroted all over HN, don't buy it. If simply increasing context size can solve problem, Gemini would be the best model for everything.
- SamDc73 1y agoGemini tends to be better at bug hunting, but yes everything else Claude is still superior