> While this may be true Opus 5.5 still sucks at a ton of things that make being a software engineer a software engineer.
It absolutely does in some ways, but how confident are you that this will continue to be the case indefinitely?
What has filled me with a low-key but growing existential dread over the past year isn't the snapshot of where LLMs are right now, but the continual rate of improvement, particularly since approximately November 2025 to now.
> While this may be true Opus 5.5 still sucks at a ton of things that make being a software engineer a software engineer.
It absolutely does in some ways, but how confident are you that this will continue to be the case indefinitely?
What has filled me with a low-key but growing existential dread over the past year isn't the snapshot of where LLMs are right now, but the continual rate of improvement, particularly since approximately November 2025 to now.