Very interesting, I'm going to use some of these ideas in my CLAUDE.md file.
> One of the most counterintuitive lessons in AI-assisted development is that being stingy with context to save tokens actually costs you more
Something similar I've been thinking about recently: For bigger projects & more complicated code, I really do notice a big difference between Claude Opus and Claude Sonnet. And Sonnet sometimes just wastes so much time on ideas that never pan out, or make things worse.
So I wonder: wouldn't it make more sense for Anthropic to not differentiate between Opus and Sonnet for people with a Max subscription? It seems like Sonnet takes 10-20 turns what Opus can do in 2 or 3, so in the end forcing people over to Sonnet would ultimately cost them more.
yeah, the max subscription comes in two tiers, $100 gets you 5x the tokens than pro (which only has sonent) and the $200 gets you 20x. doing the math for tokens is kinda annoying and not straightforward atm. they also have a "hybrid" mode which uses opus until ~20% tokens for opus left then switches to sonnet
> One of the most counterintuitive lessons in AI-assisted development is that being stingy with context to save tokens actually costs you more
Something similar I've been thinking about recently: For bigger projects & more complicated code, I really do notice a big difference between Claude Opus and Claude Sonnet. And Sonnet sometimes just wastes so much time on ideas that never pan out, or make things worse. So I wonder: wouldn't it make more sense for Anthropic to not differentiate between Opus and Sonnet for people with a Max subscription? It seems like Sonnet takes 10-20 turns what Opus can do in 2 or 3, so in the end forcing people over to Sonnet would ultimately cost them more.