bigstrat2003 8 hours ago

> Also, theres the pace of advancement of the models. Many people formed their opinions last year, and the landscape has changed a lot.

People have been saying this every year for the last 3 years. It hasn't been true before, and it isn't true now. The models haven't actually gotten smarter, they still don't actually understand a thing, and they still routinely make basic syntax and logic errors. Yes, even (insert your model of choice here).

The truth is that there just isn't any juice to squeeze in this tech. There are a lot of people eagerly trying to get on board the hype train, but the tech doesn't work and there's no sign in sight that it ever will.

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cableshaft 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

All I know is it feels very different using it now then it did a year ago. I was struggling to get it to do anything too useful a year ago, just asking it to do a small function here or there, often not being totally satisfied with the results.

Now I can ask an agent to code a full feature and it has been handling it more often than not, often getting almost all of the way there with just a few paragraphs of description.

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domlebo70 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Maybe I'm solving different problems to you, but I don't think I've seen a single "idiot moment" from Claude Code this entire week. I've had to massage things to get them more aligned with how I want things, but I don't recall any basic syntax or logic errors.

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coffeebeqn 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

With the better harness in Claude code and the >4.5 model and a somewhat thought out workflow we’ve definitely arrived at a point where I find it very helpful. The less you can rely on one-shot and more give meaningful context and a well defined testable goal the better it is. It honestly does make me worry how much better can it get and will some percentage of devs become obsolete. It requires less hand holding than many people I’ve worked with and the results come out 100x faster

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smackeyacky 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I saw a few (Claude Sonnet 4.6), easily fixed. The biggest difference I’ve noticed is that when you say it has screwed up it much less likely to go down a hallucination path and can be dragged back.

Having said that, I’ve changed the way I work too: more focused chunks of work with tight descriptions and sample data and it’s like having a 2nd brain.

	▲	domlebo70 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Very good way to describe it. I am enjoying Opus a lot.

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swader999 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And yet I just eliminated three months (easily) of tech debt on our billing system in the past two weeks.