Comment by overgard

21 hours ago

I keep hearing about this "inflection", but it feels extremely exaggerated to me. And yes, I was using it at the time. It got incrementally better, it wasn't that amazing.

I think the bigger shift was harnesses and the two ended up somewhat commingled in people's minds.

Claude code was a lot of people's introduction to using coding agents that could do a lot more than copy-pasting from a chatbot or autocomplete.

The tool usage + skills got markedly better and so did the thinking cohesion. Add 1m context windows and it was a very noticeable shift.

Opus 4.6 quality for local inference would be revolutionary.