Shalom!

You don’t think it was the genocide, starvation and mass murder of over 70,000 civilians in carpet bombings. Or the mass torture and rape?

Israel is absolutely drowning in blood and human misery. It gobbles it up. It relishes it. There’s really no need to manufacture outrage.

The people who kill iranians are the same who finance hamas. Think it's easy to eliminate hamas without hurting civilians? I've heard there was no carpet bombing.

So who?

30. Billion. Dollars.

Man

It's absolutely absurd.

The greatest grift of all time.

I don’t mean the tech itself—-which is kind of useful. I mean the 99% of the value inflation of a kind of useful tool (if you know what you’re doing).

AI is not a bigger grift than crypto. Crypto produced basically nothing of value. If all model improvement stops today, Opus 4.5 with Claude Code is a huge leap in productivity building certain types of software.

I would disagree on the huge boost to productivity but it is a very useful tool.

It’s interesting that they don’t even know this

I assume lock and dependency files are in the training data, so predicting version number tokens have high probabilities associated with them.

Why not just use a hook on reads?

One country that produces so much misery and suffering in the world.

This is such bizarre sick talk. Only in the west do we suffer this. It’s really weird and a holdover from a really strange time in the 60-70s.

How is it that they have so much money And yet can’t hire developers. Something must be unbelievably rotten at the core of the company.

Valuations are memes. The definition of "what the market will bear."

There is something rotten at the core of our society. Behavioral economics experiments run by media to manipulate beliefs and agency to the benefit of the rich.

The code it produces (svelte, typescript, python) is usually riddled with small errors , deprecated usage, reimplementation, and terrible segmentation. This is opus 4.5. Literally every single time if I did not review it carefully and edit it thoroughly it would be a mountain of extremely hard to debug tech debt. It’s a toss up if it’s actual faster to be honest. I think the phenomenon of people expressing their hopes of the technology as if they were the current reality is an extremely interesting phenomenon.

Your experience mirrors mine as well. I will say since I’ve got both data science and engineering workflows, data science is where I’ve been accelerated the most because opus can do ad hoc scripts and e.g. streamlit websites and data munging very well so all of the things that take time before decisioning are much faster.

For engineering, its extremely easy to not only acquire tech debt but to basically run yourself into the ground when opus cannot do a task but doesn’t know it cannot do a task.

BUT: what I will say is to me and to others the trajectory has been really impressive over the last 1.5 years, so I don’t view the optimism of “we’re nearly there!” As being kind of wishful or magical thinking. I can definitely believe by the end of 2026 we’ll have agents that break through the walls that it still can’t climb over as of today just based on the rate of improvements we’ve seen so far and the knowledge that we still have a lot of headroom just with current stack.