on February 11, 2026, 15:59:06, in reply to "Yes, the tools matter. And the models are getting better. But the biggest improvement in 4.6 is "
The context window in 4.6 really helps, but it's what happens when you overflow that window, which is where the tools come in.
A couple things I've found...
- new code bases are significantly better than existing code bases. starting from scratch you can really set up the repo in a way that benefits the model. more legacy codes tends to spaghetti in ways that makes the model confused. keeping things organized in an appropriate file layout really helps (see also context window)
- laungauge choice matters. I work on a very large distributed system, and we've got a mix of C and C++ (high performance data plane parts), java, and a couple newer things in rust (replacing some of the performance layer). because rust front loads a lot of the error checking to compile time, and the compiler gives good errors, and idiomatic rust has testing embedded, the model does a much better job with dev/compile/test iterative loops. is it pefect? nope. it misses stuff, but I've found that you're way more likely to have less manual work to do with rust.
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mostly due to the increased size of the context window, and improvement to subagent parallelization.
But Claude will still spit out junk that requires refinement by someone who knows what they're doing. If Claude makes you obsolete in your job, you weren't doing anything hard.
These tools will certainly continue to improve, but it will continue to be incremental unless there's some kind of wild breakthrough on catastrophic forgetting or metallization, or some new idea enables more than just fancy interfaces with generative static models. Previous Message
at least at writing code.
the tooling around the model also matters.
claude code (the cli) is definitely better than kiro (aws's) and cline (opensource cli) today, even if they all use claude 4.6 as the underlying model. Previous Message
previous one would really give me pause if I was investing with him. But he's getting his publicity, and there's apparently no such thing as bad publicity. Previous Message
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- osklister February 12, 2026, 11:42:20