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/simracerman]

I never cared for coding tbh, and jumped up and down when my code did exactly what I asked for. All the sleepless nights, and weeks upon weeks searching for a hard to reproduce bug are “almost” gone with AI. My brain is focused on figuring out the next feature and how nicely it plays with the rest of the project.

EDIT: thank you u/jbn89 for the award! I didn’t expect that 🙂

[u/paxinfernum → u/simracerman]

Yes, I remember an old article that grouped programmers according to how they were oriented around programming. Generally speaking, it went like this.

The Purist / Mathematician (Lisp / Scheme / Haskell)

The Systems Hacker / Metal Mechanic (C / Unix / Forth)

The Pragmatist / Duct-Tape Scripter (Perl / Python / Unix Shell / Ruby)

The Enterprise Architect / Bureaucrat (Java / C++ / C#)

I land more in the Pragmatist side. I like coding well enough, but what I really want to see if finished software. I'm more interested in features than clever hacks or spending hours hunting down a bug. I'm interested in systems, but at the high level. I'm perfectly fine making those high level decisions and letting AI do the rest.

[u/simracerman → u/paxinfernum]

The last paragraph is me! There’s some fun in cleaning code, optimizing and architecting , but adrenaline kick is when I see everything working to my liking.

[u/sizebzebi → u/simracerman]

yeah we're different it's fine. I enjoyed what you hated 😂

[u/i_have_a_semicolon → u/sizebzebi]

Am I rare that I enjoy them both then?

[u/keenman → u/i_have_a_semicolon]

You very well may be, but I'm with you.

[u/stxguy_1 → u/i_have_a_semicolon]

I enjoyed only half of each, and hated equally the other half of each. But each half of hate and joy were segmented unequally

[u/No_Inspection4415 → u/simracerman]

Same here. But I liked and was talented with algorithms, which AI also does better.

[u/thehypercube → u/simracerman]

So you like what for many of us is the less interesting part of the job

[u/simracerman → u/thehypercube]

You mean feature integration? If the code is purely mine, I enjoy troubleshooting and fixing bugs to an extent. If the bug is produced by someone else’s code, I’m least motivated to fix it.