Comment by nomel

If you're getting on along with 4.5, then that suggests you didn't actually need the large context window, for your use. If that's true, what's the clear tell that it's working well? Am I misunderstanding?

Did they solve the "lost in the middle" problem? Proof will be in the pudding, I suppose. But that number alone isn't all that meaningful for many (most?) practical uses. Claude 4.5 often starts reverting bug fixes ~50k tokens back, which isn't a context window length problem.

Things fall apart much sooner than the context window length for all of my use cases (which are more reasoning related). What is a good use case? Do those use cases require strong verification to combat the "lost in the middle" problems?