alt Hacker News> 1) Something happened during 2025 that made the models (or crucially, the wrapping terminal-based apps like Claude Code or Codex) much better. I only type in the terminal anymore.
I have heard say that the change was better context management and compression.
A lot of enhancements came on the model side which in many ways enabled context engineering.
200k and now 1M contexts. Better context management was enabled by improvements in structured outputs/tool calling at the model level. Also reasoning models really upped the game “plan” mode wouldn’t work well without them.