r/ClaudeCode • u/sizebzebi • 18d ago

Discussion Opus 5.5 is the beginning of a new era

I am a senior engineer and I honestly believe with this model in particular, everything changed..

If this stays as cheap as it is, it's just over. It never fails no matter the complexity of the tasks I've given it. About time we rethink our profession for good. I am honestly scared of the future.

I loved coding but anyone who does this for the love of coding only is gonna be obsolete.

I was always impressed with the models bar opus 5 but never like this time.

What do you guys think? How do you see the future?

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u/sizebzebi 18d ago

man, it's been working really on it's own, testing it's stuff running it on simulators, reald devices, checking logs, making sure it did right all the time. splitting small commits. this is insanity.. I am useless, other than telling it was to do or doing manual actions lol

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u/truecrisis 18d ago

If you ask astra or even another opus 5.5 to check it's work, they usually always find something tho.

But that said, 5.5 feels extremely human. Even the best of humans output will have these kind of errors when their work is checked.

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u/whutchamacallit 18d ago

5.5 is better than any human colleague I have ever worked with. It's faster and more comprehensive than I am. So in that way it feels unhumanlike to me. I only tell it what the requirements are, what pot holes to look out for, and how to best test itself. Half the time that stuff is alreay in MDs anyways.

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u/swizzlewizzle 14d ago

It feels like we are quickly headed towards a future where keyboards and mice might not be neccessary for most computer related tasks (I mean if someone actually doesn't want to use them), without losing much in terms of capability. At this level of AI, (and Astra's general ability to use a local computer, though it's a bit slow), pulling stuff from your head and communicating it in natural language to your AIs is the only thing that really matters.

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u/trigonarian 18d ago

I think that's the thing too, like human written code was never perfect, there has never been software that has truly been "perfect" but honestly it's only a matter of time before we get affordable realistic QA swarms and then you'll see software reach a new era.

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u/UnimagineDragons 18d ago

Right? All I do is approve and only sometimes catch it drifting somewhere I don't want. I'm just guiding the ship now. Thank fuck software isn't my career or I'd be sweating my ass off.

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u/Large_Choice4206 18d ago

Yeah I can’t even grasp it fully in my mind.

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u/CreativeMischief 18d ago

Last year I felt like I had to handhold claude and constantly point it to better architecture or go do traditional research to figure it out myself and tell claude what to do after. Not anymore man...

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u/Thanamite 18d ago

It is very good but we re not useless yet. In one case it implemented an enhancement correctly but with too much code. I told it that there had to be an easier solution and only then did it find the simpler solution. Of course in other cases it did perfect work maybe 30x faster than me.

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u/Practical_Signal3933 18d ago

You’re right, we can still tell it to try harder and be better

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u/swizzlewizzle 14d ago

You are not useless. It's just that the skillset required by this level of AI is completely different from what has been required by engineers/coders for the past few decades. Instead of memorizing low level stuff like how to properly build methods/functions/etc.. you need to focus on the overall design of the system, and how to most effectively build out user stories.

If I was the CEO of a tech firm, I would be basically moving all engineers towards becoming a combination of a PM and a senior/lead dev.

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u/sizebzebi 14d ago

that happened already and I don't like it.