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Opus 4.5 Context Control fine-tuned for coding

Opus 4.5 Context Control fine-tuned for coding

From the course: AI Trends

Opus 4.5 Context Control fine-tuned for coding

There was a time when programming software meant putting your ideas into punch cards, handing the deck over to an operator, and hoping the mainframe didn't choke on your code. And that was considered state-of-the-art. We're going through the same type of shift with tools like Opus 4.5. It's making manually typing code, refactoring, and writing tests look like debugging a jammed card reader. And although programmers are still relevant, typing or punching cards is no longer critical. Let's talk about what makes Opus 4.5 different, and I'll walk you through the process of coding a real app so that you can feel the difference between being the compiler and directing the build. What they focus on was context. This is the amount of knowledge that models remember. When context grows, models tend to drift farther from their goals. Onthropic got their models to be smarter by controlling how hard Opus thinks for…

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