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I woke up this morning, puttered around a bit, and fired up YouTube to see what's new in my typical lazy-Saturday-morning way – and quickly discovered that Claude Code's Opus and Sonnet agents now get a 1-million token context window by default. Completely nerdy news, I know - but this is a pretty big deal for people who use these tools.

Same price per token, massively expanded context. It'll be interesting to see how this goes: as often as I hit the context limits these days when working on big chunky projects that need to "see" quite a bit of code and content, this is kinda great.

I had the last phases of an audio-podcast automation project left to finish, and I asked my Opus orchestration agent (Albert) to finish them while I went off to do some non-computer things. Much more quickly than I thought, the work was completed.

I'm not sure the 1M context was a real factor in how the agent did the work, but finishing a big chunk of work and being at 10% context rather than a much larger percentage is nice from the perspective of working with large datasets and a lot of code.