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tomashubelbauer • 09/04/2026 • 2 replies • view on HN

I think it truly just was Opus 4.5 where LLMs became usable for coding.


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redox99 • 09/04/2026

4.5 became useful for one shotting large features.

LLMs were useful for coding ever since GPT3 (copilot), and sonnet 3.5 for agentic coding.

zackify • 09/04/2026

Yeah what, I'm using flash models and getting a ton of stuff done. 300-400b param size with pi.dev