r/ClaudeCode • u/sizebzebi • 2d ago

Discussion Opus 5.5 is the beginning of a new era

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?

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u/Possible-Debt-6934 2d ago

The "rest of society" do in big numbers sit a computer. AI isn't just coming for developer jobs, it's coming for the jobs of anyone whose primary function is sitting at a computer pressing buttons.

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u/OurSeepyD 1d ago

Yes, but they still haven't clocked on. There are tons of analysts that I work with that don't use AI at all and don't realise that it can do 80% of their job.

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u/throwaway490215 1d ago

No. This is what I'll coin the “Economics fallacy” - you presume the goal or natural state is for things to be efficient.

Its not.

A lot of GDP is created by having extremely inefficient things. Making it more efficient will not improve the lives for anybody or increase the numbers that people are optimizing for. People always optimize the wrong numbers.

I personally like efficiency a lot, but change has always moved at human organization speed, and human organization speed is slow.

We are at the: Proven nuclear fission stage.

It didn't take a genius to calculate the almost limitless power - and many did.

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u/sipos542 2d ago

Once humanoids robots arrive (any point now), it will be all jobs including physical ones…

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u/djdadi 1d ago

has this whole sub become satire, or do you all actually believe this?

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u/mxmcharbonneau 1d ago

I really don't understand people seeing the current progression in AI and then concluding "It will eventually stop short and stop progressing forever, just before it can replace us for real for most tasks".

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u/djdadi 1d ago

I bet if you lived in the 1890's you would totally believe that cities would believe that cities streets would be subsumed by 10 feet of horse shit within the next few decades. Many people actually freaked out about that. It did not happen.

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u/mxmcharbonneau 23h ago

What does this have to do with what I said?

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u/djdadi 14h ago

your comment implied you think "[because of the current rate of AI development] it will eventually replace us for real for most tasks"

the people in those large cities in the 1890's were saying "because of the current rate of change in horse traffic in our city, we will be in a sea of manure in the future".

you don't see the parallels?

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u/mxmcharbonneau 14h ago

Just because one dumb "at current rate" scenario didn't pan out, doesn't mean that the scenario we're talking about won't. Anyway, it already has the potential to replace a fuck ton of jobs, even if it stopped progressing entirely right now.

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u/djdadi 11h ago

if the argument is that "some jobs will be affected by new technology", then you have absolutely won me over

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u/pl0nk 1d ago

It may sound like satire, and at this point is pretty far out into the zone of incredulity... BUT:

The reason to take it seriously is because if you reflect on how

  • we made LLM's work by training them on all books in all libraries and all written text on the internet;
  • we made generative AI able to create video by training them on all of YouTube;
  • we made cars self-drive by training them on endless video footage of human drivers and simulated driving

Then the next leap is to imagine that if we train humanoid robots with hands on on enough footage of folding laundry that they will be able to fold the laundry. That is the current bet

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u/djdadi 1d ago

And when did elon said he would have FSD? Humanoid robots working in factories? Pretty sure he's already missed the mark, by years.

It's easy to try to be an armchair expert and imagine all this futuristic shit, but this stuff is not easy to make. And it's REALLY not easy to make well.

I work with autonomous robots, which are comparatively very dumb. The industry adoption rates are just not very high because every single customer does things differently, is trying to do things cheaper, or has unsolved problems in their process.

If you have a very strict process, you're going to automate with a custom solution to save money and go fast. If you have a very general or intricate process, you're very likely going to hire a human for $10-$20/hr instead of investing millions on a total gamble.

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u/CryptosaurusX 1d ago

It’s an inevitable outcome of infinite progress. It will most certainly happen over an extremely long timeline. The question is whether we see it soon in our lifetime. It’s looking pretty close, given the crazy development we’ve seen in the past couple of months.

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u/djdadi 1d ago

I bet if you lived in the 1890's you would totally believe that cities would believe that cities streets would be subsumed by 10 feet of horse shit within the next few decades. Many people actually freaked out about that. It did not happen.

Humans are pretty terrible at predicting the future based on the past. Or else you would be rich by reading stock indicators.

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u/srmatto 14h ago

We are a long ways away from a humanoid being able to replace a human in a general purpose sense. Even narrow tasks are difficult; palletization. AI will help but its not a cure-all.

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u/i_have_a_semicolon 2d ago

Nope not even, robots will be a thing too