Believe me, I wish it was just parroting.

The real annoying thing about Opus 4.5 is that it's impossible to publicly say "Opus 4.5 is an order of magnitude better than coding LLMs released just months before it" without sounding like a AI hype booster clickbaiting, but it's the counterintuitive truth, to my personal frustration.

I have been trying to break this damn model since its November release by giving it complex and seemingly impossible coding tasks but this asshole keeps doing them correctly. GPT-5.3-Codex has been the same relative to GPT-5.2-Codex, which just makes me even more frustrated.

Not hype. Opus 4.5 is actually useful to one-shot things from detailed prompts for documentation creation, it's actually functional for generating code in a meaningful way. Unfortunately it's been nerfed, and Opus 4.6 is clearly worse from my few days of working with it since release.

But I used to be a skeptic but now in the last month

The use of inflection point in the entire software industry is so annoying and cringy. It's never used correctly, it's not even used correctly in the Claude post everyone is referencing.

all the ad blockers I used to use stop working, and it became an annoying game of cat and mouse that I didn't have time for. Luckily, most of the time I can "skip" the ad in like five seconds, and it gives me a moment to catch up on incoming Slack messages.

I used to use ad blockers.

One day I visited DistroWatch.com. The site deliberately tweaked its images so ad blockers would block some "good" images. It took me awhile to figure out what was going on. The site freely admitted what it was doing. The site's point was: you're looking at my site, which I provide for free, yet you block the thing that lets me pay for the site?

I stopped using ad blockers after that. If a site has content worth paying for, I pay. If it is a horrible ad-infested hole, I don't visit it at all. Otherwise, I load ads.

Which overall means I pay for more things and visit less crap things and just visit less things period. Which is good.

Agreed, those comments are all over the map, and so many comments in 2 days!

Agreed, those comments are all over the map, and 22 comments in 2 days!

Bots don't write like me

> By this do you mean there isn't much more room for future improvement

I don't expect that LLM technology will improve in a way that makes it significantly better . I think the training pool is poisoned, and I suspect that the large AI labs have been cooking the benchmark data for years to suspect that their models are improving more quickly than they are in reality.

That being said, I'm sure some company will figure out new strategies for deploying LLMs that will cause a significant improvement.

But I don't expect that improvements are going to come from increased training.

> [Do] you feel it is not useful in its current form for software development?

IME using LLMs for software development corrodes my intuitive understanding of an enterprise codebase.

Since the advent of LLMs, I've been asked to review many sloppy 500+/1000+ line spam PRs written by arrogant Kool-Aid drinking coworkers. If someone is convinced that Claude Code is AGI, they won't hesitate to drop a slop bomb on you.

Basically I feel that coding using LLMs degrades my understanding of what I'm working on and enables coworkers to dominate my day with spam code review requests.

Have you seen all the dogshit software generated by LLMs?

I'm not trying to be rhetorically effective, I'm stating my true belief

IN MY GENUINELY HELD OPINION, LLMs generate shit code and the people who disagree don't know what good code looks like.

> LLMs are super efficient at generating boilerplate for lots of APIs

Yes they are. This is true.

> which is a time consuming and tedious part of programming.

In my experience, this is a tedious part of programming which I do not spend very much time on.

In my experience LLM generated API boilerplate is acceptable, yet still sloppier than anything I would write by hand.

In my experience LLMs are quite bad at generating essentially every other type of code, especially if you are not generating JS/TS or HTML/CSS.

> They are aggressively manipulating social media with astroturfed accounts, in particular this site and Reddit.