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Comment by tekacs

I know a lot of people like to say that compaction makes this moot, but the level of detail you lose across compaction is wildly too much for most things that I do, unfortunately.

Perhaps if your plans don't have as much detail, or if you're not, for example, having a discussion with a lot of nitty-gritty then it's fine?

The lack of long context is the main reason that I still end up using Anthropic.

The worst is when you need it to hold for example a number of papers in its head, or large and complex materials that it needs full resolution on and your context window ends up being perennially at 16%. You have about five minutes of conversation and it compacts and then you have to wait for it to read that again, get to 16%... and repeat.

372 was not perfect, but it was so much better and a godsend. It turned that 12 to 20% into more like 40%.

parent tekacs 3 months ago

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