1M tokens ~= 3.5M characters ~= 58k LOC at an *average* of 60 chars/line. 88k LO... | Hacker News

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		brookst 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context 1M tokens ~= 3.5M characters ~= 58k LOC at an average of 60 chars/line. 88k LOC at 40 chars/line

HarHarVeryFunny 6 months ago [–]

OK - I was thinking 1M chars (@ 50 chars/line) vs tokens, but I'm not sure it makes much difference to the argument. There are plenty of commercial code bases WAY bigger, and as noted other things may also be competing for space in the context.

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