I‘ve had a similar feeling before Opus 4.5. Now it suddenly clicks with me, and it has passed the shittiness threshold, into the „often useful“ area. I suspect that’s because Apple is partnering with Anthropic and they will have improved Swift support.

Eg it‘s great for refactoring now, it’s often updating the README along with renames without me asking. It’s also really good at rebasing quickly, but only by cherry-picking inside a worktree. Churning out small components I don’t want to add a new dependency for, those are usually good on first try.

For implementing whole features, the space of possible solutions is way too big to always hit something that I‘ll be satisfied with. Once I have an idea on how to implement something in broad strokes, I can give a very error ridden first draft to it as a stream of thoughts, let it read all required files, and make an implementation plan. Usually that’s not too far off, and doesn’t take that long. Once that’s done, Opus 4.5 is pretty good at implementing that plan. Still I read every line, if this will go to production.