Comment by api
2 hours ago
I'm convinced a lot of people just haven't tried and are digging their heels in and refusing to do so.
Claude Opus 5 is insane. Still not able to do big complex projects well start to finish but it can, with guidance, implement large parts of them.
There are now open weights models approaching it in performance too.
I respect the people who still haven't tried. They held a firm line when the rest of us were drawn to the shiny new thing. They're not becoming dependent on yet another centralized service (let's be real, the big centralized models are still way better than the open-weights models that most of us can run, particularly for coding). They can still develop software with nothing but their own computer, and that computer doesn't even have to be particularly new.