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GPT-5.4 vs Opus 4.6: Long-Context Quality Gap Is Massive

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Practitioner testing shows GPT-5.4 loses 54% retrieval accuracy scaling from 256K to 1M tokens; Opus 4.6 loses only 15%. All major labs claim 1M token windows, but quality at scale varies dramatically. For long-context agentic tasks, the model choice matters more than the context size.

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