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2026-06-20 23:28 UTC

@Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social @matt@toot.cafe This industry generates an unbelievable amount of chaff. Having had the experience multiple times now of “oh you’re just not up to date you really need to be using the latest models”, then finding that those models have the exact same problems, I find this claim anti-convincing.

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@pozorvlak@mathstodon.xyz 2026-06-21 09:57

@glyph@mastodon.social I also had that experience and that reaction, until back in about February I tried Opus 4.6 in Copilot and realised that holy cow, the models actually *are* good enough for my use-case now. My working theory is that for each person there's a changeover point before which LLMs are a net waste of time and after which they become increasingly useful, *but that point is in a different place for different people*. The people saying "no you don't UNDERSTAND the models are SO MUCH BETTER now" have passed that point, but maybe you haven't. Or maybe you have! The only way to know is to keep checking every month or two. (Opus 4.5 was *not* good enough for me: it produced worse code than I would have and it took longer to cajole it into doing what I wanted than it would have to do it myself. It provided value mainly by solving the blank editor window problem. Opus 4.6 doesn't produce well-architected code, but it's very good at producing code that Does The Thing and a lot of the time that's all I need. And it is *remarkable* at debugging. I haven't tried 4.7 or 4.8.) @Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social @matt@toot.cafe

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