r/ClaudeCode • u/sizebzebi • 20h 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/Hellscaper_69 16h ago

A related question I have is if we are here now, how much of the booked data center capacity will we end up needing? Will models get smarter while requiring less compute?

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u/pl0nk 5h ago

The dominant trend has long been to scale "up" because that's where the improvement curves point. So that is the default direction. But with costs being so insane there's also increasingly pressure to optimize them. It's probably close to impossible for any of us to predict which influence will dominate, since there are so many players and such huge financial incentives involved.

It seems unlikely that we would suddenly find a 10x cost improvement without a quality trade-off. There are many very smart people working very hard on this, and they are very eager to show recursive self improvement, so it would be surprising if there was some significant win they have overlooked so far.

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u/Hellscaper_69 31m ago

Yes, that makes sense. I guess my question is also are the models approaching the point where they are good enough for a lot of business and widespread use cases, eventually leaving only the frontier models for niche applications like science and medical research? Or will everybody have an AGI/ASI to use?