alt Hacker News> Software engineering purists have to get out of some of these religious belief
To me, the Claude superfans like yourself are the religious, like how you run around poffering unsubstantiated claims like this and believe in / anthropomorphize way too much. Is it because Anthrop'ic is an abbreviation of Anthropomorphic?
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throwaway7783 • today at 12:19 AM
In my own anecdotal experience Claude Code found a bug in production faster than I could. I was the author of the said code, that was written 4 years ago by hand. GPs claim perhaps is not all that unsubstantiated. My role is moving more towards QA/PM nowadays.
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I would be in the skeptics' camp 3-4 months ago. Opus-4.5 and GPT-5.2 have changed my mind. I'm not talking about mere code completion. I am talking about these models AND the corresponding agents playing a really really capable software engineer + tester + SRE/Ops role.
The caveat is that we have to be fairly good at steering them in the right direction, as things stand today. It is exhaustive to do it the right way.