I have 22k karma and I think it's a trivial claim that LLMs work and that software is clearly on the cusp of being 100% solved within a couple years.

The naysaying seems to mostly come from people coping with the writing they see on the wall with their anecdote about some goalpost-moving challenge designed for the LLM to fail (which they never seem to share with us). And if their low effort attempt can't crack LLMs, then nobody can.

It reminds me of HN ten years ago where you'd still run into people claiming that Javascript is so bad that anybody who thinks they can create good software with it is wrong (trust them, they've supposedly tried). Acting like they're so preoccupied with good engineering when it's clearly something more emotional.

Meanwhile, I've barely had to touch code ever since Opus 4.5 dropped. I've started wondering if it's me or the machine that's the background agent. My job is clearly shifting into code review and project management while tabbing between many terminals.

As LLMs keep improving, there's a moment where it's literally more work to find the three files you need to change than to just instruct someone to do it, and what changes the game is when you realize it's creating output you don't even need to edit anymore.

> It reminds me of HN ten years ago where you'd still run into people claiming that Javascript is so bad that anybody who thinks they can create good software with it is wrong (trust them, they've supposedly tried). Acting like they're so preoccupied with good engineering when it's clearly something more emotional.

Curiously enough, those people are still around and writing good software without javascript. And I say that as someone who generally enjoys modern JS.

> Meanwhile, I've barely had to touch code ever since Opus 4.5 dropped. I've started wondering if it's me or the machine that's the background agent. My job is clearly shifting into code review and project management while tabbing between many terminals.

Why not cut out the middleman and have Opus 4.5 do the code review and project management too?

wasn't sure if this was sarcasm until this point:

> with their anecdote about some goalpost-moving challenge designed for the LLM to fail (which they never seem to share with us).

literally what the boosters do on every single post!

"no no, the top model last week was complete dogshit, but this new one is world changing! no you can't see my code!"

10/10 for the best booster impression I've seen this year!