Comment by strangescript
1 day ago
I find it interesting that as the models get better, the "it takes no skill crowd" grows larger, but there is no denying, in hindsight, that the "it still takes skill" group was right at each model iteration.
Opus 5.5 is amazing. It still makes mistakes all the time. If you think it doesn't, you are outing yourself.
as a power user of these products, this is what i don't understand. i work on a large web app with many many users, and it's hard for me to believe that the "it takes no skill" crowd are working on anything with any stakes. and again, i use these models all the time, and they've pretty radically changed how i do work day-to-day! but my job does not consist of telling opus to complete my sprint and then sitting around for 14 days, and i don't think it will at any point in the near future. as the models get better, expectations surrounding output increase -- i'm not saying i like this, but i'm also not fretting about job security.
that said, i'd probably view all of this through a much more helpless lens if i were earlier in my career.