Comment by reassess_blind
1 day ago
I only have experience with using it within my small scope, being full stack NodeJS web development (i.e an area with many solved problems and millions of lines of existing code for the models to reference), but my experience with the new Opus model in Claude Code has been phenomenal.
Same with Bun + Typescript + Tailwind + Preact. Very productive stack with Claude Code. I’d love to try to objectively measure it, though, but I’m. It sure how I’d run the experiment. If I program something and also have Claude code program it, the second of those iterations will be informed by the knowledge I gained from the first.
For sure. I was able to launch an MVP product in 3 days that would have previously taken me weeks. The frustrations with previous models going off the rails, getting stuck in loops, hacky solutions or bad code are almost completely gone with Opus.
I even tested it with the —-dangerously-skip-permissions flag, and it was pretty amazing being able to step away from the computer and come back 30 minutes later to a completely functional app. Still wouldn’t recommend that setting outside of a VM, on the off chance it rm -rf’s your whole drive.
I’m a mixture of both incredibly bullish on the technology itself, while also saddened about the future of the software development craft.