Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 18/09/2026Claude Code + Opus 4.5 feels like it was the inflection point to me that was when things broke out of "junior dev that needs a lot of wrangling" territory into being a truly talented collaborator 5931
emma zhou @emmz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026yes! I clearly remember this because it happened over the unusually long holiday break ‘25/‘26. all the best programmers I know (presumably with a bunch of free time on their hands) tried claude code, were blown away, and stopped writing code by hand permanently. 190
tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I recall setting opus 4 (?) on a tree optimization problem last November, watching it spiral, and concluding "eh, not yet" tried again in Jan and it oneshotted it with flying colors. that was it for me 120
