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Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
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#662Earlier quoted context omitted.
It matters for all the things you’d be able to justify paying a programmer for. What’s about to change is that there will be tons of these little one-off projects that previously nobody could justify paying $150/hr for. A mass democratization of software development. We’ve yet to see what that really looks like.
We already know what that looks like, because PHP happened.
And low-code/no-code (pre-LLMs). Our company spent probably the same amount of dev-time and money on rewriting low-code back to "code" (Python in our case) as it did writing low-code in the first place. LLMs are not quite comparable in damage, but some future maintenance for LLM-code will be needed for sure.
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#663People should finally understand that LLMs are a lossy database of PAST knowledge. Yes, if you throw a task at it that has been done tons of times before, it works. Which is not a surprise, because it takes minutes to Google and index multiple full implementations of "Tool that allows you to right-click on an image to convert it". Without LLM you could do the same: Just copy&paste the implementation of that from Micr…
> What LLMs will NOT do however, is write or invent SOMETHING KNEW.
Counterpoint: ChatGPT came up with the new expression "The confetti has left the cannon" a few years ago.
So, your claim is not obviously true. Can you give us an example of a programming problem where the LLMs fail to solve it?
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#664Earlier quoted context omitted.
"its building it the right way, in an easily understood way, in a way that's easily extensible" I am in a unique situation where I work with a variety of codebases over the week. I have had no problem at all utilizing Claude Code w/ Opus 4.5 and Gemini CLI w/ Gemini 3.0 Pro to make excellent code that is indisputably "the right way", in an extremely clear and understandable way, and that is maximally extensible. None…
>llm_nerd >created two years ago You AI hype thots/bots are all the same. All these claims but never backed up with anything to look at. And also alway claiming “you’re holding it wrong”.
>You AI hype thots/bots are all the same
This isn't twitter, so save the garbage rhetoric. And if you must question my account, I create a new account whenever I setup a new main PC, and randomly pick a username that is top of mind at the moment. This isn't professionally or personally affiliated in any way so I'm not trying to build a thing. I mean, if I had a 10 year old account that only managed a few hundred upvotes despite prolific commenting, I'd probably delete it out of embarrassment though.
>All these claims but never backed up with anything to look at
Uh...install the tools? Use them? What does "to look at" even mean? Loads of people are using these tools to great effect, while some tiny minority tell us online that no way they don't work, etc. And at some point they'll pull their head out of the sand and write the followup "Wait, they actually do".
Re: Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
#665Doing things for your own use, where you are taking all the risks, is perfectly fine.
As soon as you try to sell it to me, you have a duty of care. You are not meeting that duty of care with this ignorant and reckless way of working.
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#666Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The hard thing about engineering is not "building a thing that works", its building it the right way, in an easily understood way, in a way that's easily extensible. You’re talking like in the year 2026 we’re still writing code for future humans to understand and improve. I fear we are not doing that. Right now, Opus 4.5 is writing code that later Opus 5.0 will refactor and extend. And so on.
Opus 4.5 is writing code that Opus 5.0 will refactor and extend. And Opus 5.5 will take that code and rewrite it in C from the ground up. And Opus 6.0 will take that code and make it assembly. And Opus 7.0 will design its own CPU. And Opus 8.0 will make a factory for its own CPUs. And Opus 9.0 will populate mars. And Opus 10.0 will be able to achieve AGI. And Opus 11.0 will find God. And Opus 12.0 will make us a time…
Objectively, we are talking about systems that have gone from being cute toys to outmatching most juniors using only rigid and slow batch training cycles.
As soon as models have persistent memory for their own try/fail/succeed attempts, and can directly modify what's currently called their training data in real time, they're going to develop very, very quickly.
We may even be underestimating how quickly this will happen.
We're also underestimating how much more powerful they become if you give them analysis and documentation tasks referencing high quality software design principles before giving them code to write.
This is very much 1.0 tech. It's already scary smart compared to the median industry skill level.
The 2.0 version is going to be something else entirely.
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#667Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah I think it's a mistake to focus on writing "readable" or even "maintainable" code. We need to let go of these aging paradigms and be open to adopting a new one.
as depressing as it is to say, i think it's a bit like the year is 1906 and we're complaining that these new tyres for cars they're making are bad because they're no longer backwards compatible with the horse drawn wagons we might want to attach them to in the future.
Yes, exactly.
This is a completely new thing which will have transformative consequences.
It's not just a way to do what you've always done a bit more quickly.
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#668- does it understand the difference between eslint 8x and eslint 9.x?
- or biome 1.x and biome 2.x ?
- nah! it never will and that is why it ll never replace mid level engineers, FTFY
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#669Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are two types of right/wrong ways to build: the context specific right/wrong way to build something and an overly generalized engineer specific right/wrong way to build things. I've worked on teams where multiple engineers argued about the "right" way to build something. I remember thinking that they had biases based on past experiences and assumptions about what mattered. It usually took an outsider to proacti…
*I've worked on teams where multiple engineers argued about the "right" way to build something. I remember thinking that they had biases based on past experiences and assumptions about what mattered. It usually took an outsider to proactively remind them what actually mattered to the business case.* Gosh I am so tired with that one - someone had a case that burned them in some previous project and now his life missio…
>someone had a case that burned them in some previous project and now his life mission is to prevent that from happening ever again
Isn't that what makes them senior ? If you dont want that behaviour, just hire a bunch of fresh grad.
Re: Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
#670I agree with the OP that I can get LLM's to do things now that I wouldn't even attempt a year ago, but I feel it has more to do with my own experience using LLM's (and the surrounding tools) than the actual models themselves.
I use copilot and change models often, and haven't really noticed any major differences between them, except some of the newer ones are very slow.
I generally feel the smaller and faster ones are more useful since they will let me discover problems with my prompt or context faster.
Maybe I'm simply not using LLM's in a way that lets the superiority of newer models reveal itself properly, but there is a huge financial incentive for LLM makers to pretend that their model has game-changing "special sauce" even if it doesn't.