alt Hacker NewsEven before this release the tools (for me: Claude Code and Gemini for other stuff) reached a "good enough" plateau that means any other company is going to have a hard time making me (I think soon most users) want to switch. Unless a new release from a different company has a real paradigm shift, they're simply sufficient. This was not true in 2023/2024 IMO.
With this release the "good enough" and "cheap enough" intersect so hard that I wonder if this is an existential threat to those other companies.
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For me, the last wave of models finally started delivering on their agentic coding promises.
I asked a similar question yesterday:
But for me the previous models were routinely wrong time wasters that overall added no speed increase taking the lottery of whether they'd be correct into account.
Correct. Opus 4.5 'solved' software engineering. What more do I need? Businesses need uncapped intelligence, and that is a very high bar. Individuals often don't.
I just can't stop thinking though about the vulnerability of training data
You say good enough. Great, but what if I as a malicious person were to just make a bunch of internet pages containing things that are blatantly wrong, to trick LLMs?
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Why wouldn't you switch? The cost to switch is near zero for me. Some tools have built in model selectors. Direct CLI/IDE plug-ins practically the same UI.