Steve Smith

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[Steve Smith @smithstephen]

Claude quietly upgraded the context window size on all paid plans when they rolled out Opus 4.8 last week. It’s now 500K (for Opus 4.8, Opus 4.7, Opus 4.6, and Sonnet 4.6) when using the regular https://t.co/j2Su0beI3u chat in any paid plan.

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@joshwoodward unrelated to this - but spark is AMAZING. Such a killer feature.

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The work that made you a good lawyer, the 2 a.m. review, the memo that came back bleeding red ink, is the first thing AI took. A Stanford study shows what that costs the next generation, and three things to do about it before you set next year's training budget.

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@RoundtableSpace Kind of feels like putting a Yugo engine into a Ferrari though.

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@ArtificialLawya @Polymarket Yup. It’s a heavy topic all right.

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@satyanadella Super excited to see what MSFT announces! Hoping you're finally really in the AI game with your own models and a massively improved Copilot experience all around!

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@StockSavvyShay Who cares what she purchases? She has massively underperformed the market. Her funds are a wealth destroyer.

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[Steve Smith @smithstephen]

"What's the model best at?" A client asked me that last month, and my honest answer surprised him: I don't know, and neither does anyone else. Which is exactly why where you start matters more than which tool you buy, and the full piece lays out how to choose.

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You can't hand a model thousands of documents and a deadline if it might tell you it read them all when it skimmed half. That's been the whole problem with AI on real matters. Opus 4.8 didn't fix it, but it moved in the right direction, and I tested it on a live 3,000-document matter the day it launched. Here's what happened.

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@pepemoonboy I don’t know a single person that would pay. Zero. Zilch. Nada. None.

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The bar moved while everyone was arguing about whether to use AI. The attorneys closing the gap between using it and using it well are writing the rules the rest of the profession gets measured by

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This was such a brilliant episode.

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In case you woke up this morning, saw people on the internet yelling at each other, and thought "jeez, why is the Luce so controversial for all the Ferrari die-hards?" https://t.co/yAEVIAQL3d

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AI is horsepower. RevOps is the chassis, the brakes, the steering. Most companies are bolting 700 horsepower onto a chassis that was never built for it, and calling it strategy.

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His IT director told him ChatGPT memory was off. He showed me the setting. He felt fine. Then the model summarized a contract by referencing another client.