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Developer warns frontier AI providers are "pirates" after Navier-Stokes incident

Commenters report context performance beyond advertised limits

2 Sep 14 11:29 AM · 13d ago · 2 comments · 1 source · development 2 of 3

birdsongs reported using autonomous sessions reaching 600K+ tokens with good performance, contradicting claims that useful context maxes out around 250K. Others noted that complex tasks naturally balloon context size, suggesting real-world usage patterns differ significantly from McCanna's assumptions about prompt bloat.

Patrick McCanna Developer, authorOpenAI Frontier AI providerAnthropic Frontier AI provider

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