paddo.dev: 'Context Stops Being Scarce' — 1M Token Standard Pricing Obsoletes Compression Patterns
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paddo.dev published an analysis (March 16) arguing that Anthropic standardizing 1M token context across Opus and Sonnet pricing fundamentally changes agentic workflow architecture. Key claim: optimizations built around context scarcity — CLAUDE.md token budgeting, aggressive summarization, chunked reads — become partially obsolete when context is abundant. Developers are advised to revisit compression assumptions built under 200K-context constraints before over-engineering context management.