Comment by SwellJoe

Opus 4.5 in November of 2025 was the first model that would save more time than it wasted for an experienced developer. Everything that came before was a cute parlor trick. Sometimes it could complete a function without shitting the bed, but mostly it was just an annoyance creating messes you'd need to clean up at least as often as it did the right thing.

If you weren't mostly writing code by hand a year ago, you weren't writing very good code.