alt Hacker News> 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.
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jacquesm • last Wednesday at 7:48 PM
That's precisely it. The slope and the rate at which the angle of the slope is changing are the issue.
Idk, I see it the opposite, while they can sometimes write impressive-looking code under the right circumstances, I still see the most advanced models screwing up the basics all the time. It seems to me there is some fundamental flaw in LLMs that is simply not fixable at any cost. While we can keep pushing what they can do (or rather what we allow them to do), 1. English just isn’t a good programming language and 2. There’s no there there.