I find this discussion interesting. I've had huge increases in accuracy and huge reductions in token usage by capping my Claude models at 200k instead of 1M. I find 1M unusable and wasteful and feel that 200k should be the default. This also makes sense given that the whole reason people use "Ralph loops" is to keep the context window small for all tasks to get better results. Of course, clearing it yourself and manually managing it is better, but if I have 8 projects going in different terminal tabs I'm not watching any one of them that closely to effectively do that.
What are people using 1M context window for?