alt Hacker NewsAnd I'm sure if you go back to the release of 3.5, you'll see the exact same comments.
And when 5 comes out, I'm sure I'll see you commenting "OK I agree 6 months ago but now with Claude 5 Opus it's great".
It's really the weirdest type of goalpost moving.
I have used Opus 4.5 a lot lately and it's garbage, absolutely useless for anything beyond generating trivial shit for which I'd anyway use a library or have it already integrated in the framework I use.
I think the real reason your opinion has changed in 6 months is because your skills have atrophyed.
It's all as bad as 6 months ago, and even as bad as 2 years ago, you've just become worse.
> And I'm sure if you go back to the release of 3.5, you'll see the exact same comments.
Not from people whose opinions on that I respect.
Credible software developers I know were impressed by Claude 3.5 but none of them were saying "I don't type out code by hand any more". Now they are.
If you think LLMs today are "as bad as 2 years ago" then I don't respect your opinion. That's not a credible thing to say.