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Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
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Re: Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
#52Most software engineers are seriously sleeping on how good LLM agents are right now, especially something like Claude Code. Once you’ve got Claude Code set up, you can point it at your codebase, have it learn your conventions, pull in best practices, and refine everything until it’s basically operating like a super-powered teammate. The real unlock is building a solid set of reusable “skills” plus a few agents for th…
Everybody says how good Claude is and I go to my code base and I can't get it to correctly update one xaml file for me. It is quicker to make changes myself than to explain exactly what I need or learn how to do "prompt engineering".
Disclaimer: I don't have access to Claude Code. My employer has only granted me Claude Teams. Supposedly, they don't use my poopy code to train their models if I use my work email Claude so I am supposed to use that. If I'm not pasting code (asking general questions) into Claude, I believe I'm allowed to use whatever.
Re: Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
#53Mm this is my experience as well, but I'm not particularly worried about software engineering a whole. If anything this example shows that these cli tools give regular devs much higher leverage. There's a lot of software labor that is like, go to the lowest cost country, hire some mediocre people there and then hire some US guy to manage them. That's the biggest target of this stuff, because now that US guy can just…
> If anything this example shows that these cli tools give regular devs much higher leverage.
This is also my take. When the printing press came out, I bet there were scribes who thought, "holy shit, there goes my job!" But I bet there were other scribes who thought, "holy shit, I don't have to do this by hand any more?!"
It's one thing when something like weaving or farming gets automated. We have a finite need for clothes and food. Our desire for software is essentially infinite, or at least, it's not clear we have anywhere close to enough of it. The constraint has always been time and budget. Those constraints are loosening now. And you can't tell me that when I am able to wield a tool that makes me 10X more productive that that somehow diminishes my value.
Re: Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
#54Most software engineers are seriously sleeping on how good LLM agents are right now, especially something like Claude Code. Once you’ve got Claude Code set up, you can point it at your codebase, have it learn your conventions, pull in best practices, and refine everything until it’s basically operating like a super-powered teammate. The real unlock is building a solid set of reusable “skills” plus a few agents for th…
I really think a lof of people tried AI coding earlier, got frustrated at the errors and gave up. That's where the rejection of all these doomer predictions comes from.
And I get it. Coding with Claude Code really was prompting something, getting errors, and asking it to fix it. Which was still useful but I could see why a skilled coder adding a feature to a complex codebase would just give up
Opus 4.5 really is at a new tier however. It just...works. The errors are far fewer and often very minor - "careless" errors, not fundamental issues (like forgetting to add "use client" to a nextjs client component.
Re: Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
#55Most software engineers are seriously sleeping on how good LLM agents are right now, especially something like Claude Code. Once you’ve got Claude Code set up, you can point it at your codebase, have it learn your conventions, pull in best practices, and refine everything until it’s basically operating like a super-powered teammate. The real unlock is building a solid set of reusable “skills” plus a few agents for th…
Oh! An ad!
lol does sound like and ad, but is true. Also forgot about hooks use hooks too! I just use voice to text then had claude reword it. Still my real world ideas
Re: Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
#56A couple weeks ago I had Opus 4.5 go over my project and improve anything it could find. It "worked" but the architecture decisions it made were baffling, and had many, many bugs. I had to rewrite half of the code. I'm not an AI hater, I love AI for tests, finding bugs, and small chores. Opus is great for specific, targeted tasks. But don't ask it to do any general architecture, because you'll be soon to regret it.
these models work best when you know what you want to achieve and it helps you get there while you guide it. "Improve anything you can find" sounds like you didn't really know
Re: Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
#57The problem with this is none of this is production quality. You haven’t done edge case testing for user mistakes, a security audit, or even just maintainability. Yes opus 4.5 seems great but most of the time it tries to vastly over complicate a solution. Its answer will be 10x harder to maintain and debug than the simpler solution a human would have created by thinking about the constraints of keeping code working.
there is are skills / subagents for that
something like code-simplifier is surprisingly useful (as is /review)
Re: Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
#58Most software engineers are seriously sleeping on how good LLM agents are right now, especially something like Claude Code. Once you’ve got Claude Code set up, you can point it at your codebase, have it learn your conventions, pull in best practices, and refine everything until it’s basically operating like a super-powered teammate. The real unlock is building a solid set of reusable “skills” plus a few agents for th…
Everybody says how good Claude is and I go to my code base and I can't get it to correctly update one xaml file for me. It is quicker to make changes myself than to explain exactly what I need or learn how to do "prompt engineering". Disclaimer: I don't have access to Claude Code. My employer has only granted me Claude Teams. Supposedly, they don't use my poopy code to train their models if I use my work email Claude…
What's even the point of this comment if you self-admittedly don't have access to the flagship tool that everyone has been using to make these big bold coding claims?
Re: Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
#59To the author: you wrote those apps. Not like you used to, but you wrote them.
IMO, our jobs are safe. It's our ways of working that are changing. Rapidly.
Re: Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
#60Most software engineers are seriously sleeping on how good LLM agents are right now, especially something like Claude Code. Once you’ve got Claude Code set up, you can point it at your codebase, have it learn your conventions, pull in best practices, and refine everything until it’s basically operating like a super-powered teammate. The real unlock is building a solid set of reusable “skills” plus a few agents for th…
Mind sharing the bill for all that?
Cheaper than hiring another developer, probably. My experience: for a few dollars I was able to extensively refactor a Python codebase in half a day. This otherwise would have taken multiple days of very tedious work.