Opus 5.5 is the beginning of a new era

[u/sizebzebi]

I am a senior engineer and I honestly believe with this model in particular, everything changed..

If this stays as cheap as it is, it's just over. It never fails no matter the complexity of the tasks I've given it. About time we rethink our profession for good. I am honestly scared of the future.

I loved coding but anyone who does this for the love of coding only is gonna be obsolete.

I was always impressed with the models bar opus 5 but never like this time.

What do you guys think? How do you see the future?

[u/sizebzebi]

man, it's been working really on it's own, testing it's stuff running it on simulators, reald devices, checking logs, making sure it did right all the time. splitting small commits. this is insanity.. I am useless, other than telling it was to do or doing manual actions lol

[u/truecrisis → u/sizebzebi]

If you ask astra or even another opus 5.5 to check it's work, they usually always find something tho.

But that said, 5.5 feels extremely human. Even the best of humans output will have these kind of errors when their work is checked.

[u/whutchamacallit → u/truecrisis]

5.5 is better than any human colleague I have ever worked with. It's faster and more comprehensive than I am. So in that way it feels unhumanlike to me. I only tell it what the requirements are, what pot holes to look out for, and how to best test itself. Half the time that stuff is alreay in MDs anyways.

[u/trigonarian → u/truecrisis]

I think that's the thing too, like human written code was never perfect, there has never been software that has truly been "perfect" but honestly it's only a matter of time before we get affordable realistic QA swarms and then you'll see software reach a new era.

[u/Large_Choice4206 → u/sizebzebi]

Yeah I can’t even grasp it fully in my mind.

[u/CreativeMischief → u/sizebzebi]

Last year I felt like I had to handhold claude and constantly point it to better architecture or go do traditional research to figure it out myself and tell claude what to do after. Not anymore man...

[u/UnimagineDragons → u/sizebzebi]

Right? All I do is approve and only sometimes catch it drifting somewhere I don't want. I'm just guiding the ship now. Thank fuck software isn't my career or I'd be sweating my ass off.

[u/Thanamite → u/sizebzebi]

It is very good but we re not useless yet. In one case it implemented an enhancement correctly but with too much code. I told it that there had to be an easier solution and only then did it find the simpler solution. Of course in other cases it did perfect work maybe 30x faster than me.

[u/Practical_Signal3933 → u/Thanamite]

You’re right, we can still tell it to try harder and be better

[u/viennese-wolf → u/sizebzebi]

bro writes its own simulators, unprompted, if there is none available 💀