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200K TOKENS IS PLENTY

Claude Opus 4.5 is considered the best model for coding, and it only has a context window of roughly 200,000 tokens. While some people feel like that is not a lot, that can be plenty for developers who use short threads. The best threads are short, with just the right amount of context. The longer the conversation, the more an agent's context window gets filled up with junk. You only need to give agents the context they need to get the job done, and no more.

TERENCE TAO DOUBTS THAT ANYTHING RESEMBLING GENUINE "ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE" IS WITHIN REACH OF CURRENT AI TOOLS

While 'artificial general intelligence' may be out of reach, 'artificial general cleverness' is becoming a reality in many ways. General cleverness is the ability to solve broad classes of complex problems via somewhat ad hoc means. While this doesn't qualify as true intelligence, it can result in a non-trivial success rate in a wide spectrum of tasks. Viewing the current generation of tools as a generator of clever thoughts and outputs may be a more productive perspective when trying to use them to solve difficult problems.

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