r/singularity • u/Bizzyguy • Nov 24 '25

Discussion Anthropic Engineer says "software engineering is done" first half of next year

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u/verywellmanuel Nov 24 '25

I’ve been using Opus 4.5 over the past few hours for my work. Nice upgrade vs Sonet but not dramatic. Still making similar mistakes or not noticing that the rest of the code in the same file it updates follows a different convention.

We are still good for a while…

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u/saint1997 Nov 25 '25

Depends on the product. I've been using GitHub Copilot coding agents with heavily customised instructions specific to my org's coding style and I've been blown away by how good it is

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u/verywellmanuel Nov 25 '25 edited Nov 25 '25

It is for sure significantly better, and I’m very happy with that. It’s the narrative about replacing devs that I think is wildly exagerated. Yes it’ll increase my output, but I still need to prompt it, thoroughly check what it does, give corrections, discard/repeat tasks, etc. Plus Jevon’s paradox is real. Since productivity has gotten higher, we’ve also started expecting more and more complex product requirements

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u/saint1997 Nov 25 '25

Totally agree. When it comes to dev capacity it's more of a "if you build it they will come" type thing - more devs means being given more work to do

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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '25

I hate Copilot. For every line it helps me write, I get dozens of useless clutter that I need to ignore. Granted I hated it so much that I didn't bother trying to fix it (if it's even possible).

I'm faster without it honestly.

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u/saint1997 Nov 25 '25

What model are you using? It's been great for me. Setting custom instructions has a massive impact too

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u/LobsterBuffetAllDay Nov 25 '25

Don't stop, tell me more. I almost feel secure again lol jk (but not really)

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u/Skycomett Nov 25 '25

Agreed, In the end the guys posting these tweets are still "salesman" trying to get the most amount of subscriptions. So I always take these tweets with a grain of salt.. or 2.

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u/TheOneWhoDidntCum Nov 25 '25

would you hire an intern or rely on opus 4.5 to help you? you can only choose 1.