This is definitely one of my CORE problem as I use these tools for "professional software engineering." I really desperately need LLMs to maintain extremely effective context and it's not actually that interesting to see a new model that's marginally better than the next one (for my day-to-day).

However. Price is king. Allowing me to flood the context window with my code base is great, but given that the price has substantially increased, it makes sense to better manage the context window into the current situation. The value I'm getting here flooding their context window is great for them, but short of evals that look into how effective Sonnet stays on track, it's not clear if the value actually exists here.