Claude Opus 4.6 Drops: The AI That Handles Long Jobs Without Nagging You Every Five Minutes
New Feature / Update: Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6
What is it?
Anthropic let loose Claude Opus 4.6 on 5 February. This one’s got a 1 million token context window. Think of it like giving the AI a memory that holds an entire novel, not just a Post-it note. Old AIs handle one question at a time. This beast breaks down big projects into bits, runs them side by side, and keeps going over days if needed. No more babysitting.[1]
Why does it matter?
You ever start a report at 9am, only to chase the AI through lunch because it forgot step three? Not anymore. Marketers can feed it a campaign brief, market data, competitor ads, and let it draft emails, social posts, and a landing page outline. All autonomous, with self-checks to fix goofs before you see them.
Analysts chuck in spreadsheets, sales calls from last quarter, and inventory logs. It spots trends, crunches numbers, and spits out a forecast plus action list. I tried something like this last Tuesday with client data from Shopify syncs. Saved me three hours of tab-switching, and the output matched what I’d tweak by hand anyway. Remember that time your kettle boiled dry while you fixed an AI loop? This cuts those moments.
Developers point it at a backlog. It maps user stories, writes code chunks, tests them parallel, and flags merges. Real folk like business owners syncing Pabbly with QuickBooks use it to auto-handle invoice chases and stock alerts without Zapier hand-holding every link.
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