Comment by josephg
13 hours ago
For now. Claude is worse than we are at programming. But its improving much faster than I am. Opus 4.6 is incredible compared to previous models.
How long before those lines cross? Intuitively it feels like we have about 2-3 years before claude is better at writing code than most - or all - humans.
It is certainly already better than most humans, even better than most humans who occasionally code. The bar is already quite high, I'd say. You have to be decent in your niche to outcompete frontier LLM Agents in a meaningful way.
I'm only allowed 4.5 at work where I do this (likely to change soon but bureaucracy...). Still the resulting code is not at a level I expect.
i told my boss (not fully serious) we should ban anyone with less than 5 years experience from using the ai so they learn to write and recognize good code.