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6, focusing on how its 'Reasoning-First' approach enables superior performance in long-horizon tasks.

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Claude Opus 4.6: Why 'Reasoning-First' Architecture Is the New Standard

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Han HELOIR YAN, Ph.D.

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Anthropic's latest release, Claude Opus 4.6, marks a significant milestone in adaptive thinking. By prioritizing a 'Reasoning-First' architecture over raw parameter scaling, it solves the context rot issue that plagued earlier models. This post explores the 1M token window, the real trade-offs behind its smartest features, and why it is currently outperforming GPT-5.2 in complex coding benchmarks.

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