alt Hacker News> [...] with multiple agents working at the same time, each at that speed.
Horizontal parallelising of tasks doesn't really require any modern tech.
But I agree that Opus 4.6 with 1M context window is really good at lots of routine programming tasks.
Opus helped me brick my RPi CM4 today. It glibly apologized for telling to use an e instead of a 6 in a boot loader sequence.
Spent an hour or so unraveling the mess. My feeling are growing more and more conflicted about these tools. They are here to stay obviously.
I’m honestly uncertain about the junior engineers I’m working with who are more productive than they might be otherwise, but are gaining zero (or very little) experience. It’s like the future is a world where the entire programming sphere is dominated by the clueless non technical management that we’ve all had to deal with in small proportion a time or two.