I recovered the joy of programming. And I didn’t look back. I won’t pretend that number of lines of code or PRs is a valid metric, especially when AI can be as verbose as it wants to win on every metric. But I can say that I am pushing significant changes every day, getting PRs merged, and at the end of the day, getting the work done. And for that reason, I’m not scared of being fired. Plus, I’m keeping my brain functions intact.
Honestly feels like the models have been getting steadily worse for a full year. Opus 3.5 was the last good Claude model.
Everything since then has been unable to communicate and is more and more designed to convince non technical users it’s right. All I want is a model that can do the small annoying things like run one off sql queries and tell me if I’ve made poor design choices and minor errors.