Comment by anonymous908213
7 hours ago
I'm not sure I buy the safer choice argument. How much of a risk is it to assign a team of "agents" to independently work on porting the code natively? If they fail, it costs a trivial amount of compute relative to OAI's resources. If they succeed, what a PR coup that would be! It seems like they would have nothing to lose by at least trying, but they either did not try, or they did and it failed, neither of which inspires confidence in their supposedly life-changing, world-changing product.
I will note that you specifically said the agents have shown huge success over "the past 12 months", so it feels like the goalposts are growing legs when you say "actually, only for the last two months with Opus 4.5" now.
Claude Code was released in February, it just had its 1 year birthday a few days ago.
OpenAI Codex CLI and Gemini CLI followed a few months afterwards
It took a little while for the right set of coding agent features to be developed and for the models to get good enough to use those features effectively.
I think this stuff went from interesting to useful around Sonnet 4, and from useful to "let it write most of my code" with the upgrades in November.
Aider with Gemini 2.5 was way ahead of its time, and with O3 it was best in class until Claude Code with Sonnet 4.