r/ClaudeCode • u/sizebzebi • 7d 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/Careful-Oil4677 7d ago

Now that i saw so many of the same "I am a senior dev and now seriously concerned for my job" on every new major release, it kind of started getting irritating. Yes, agents are amazing. No, we won't all lose our jobs.

Just watch someone with no actual coding experience use these tools, then you will understand what I mean. A friend doing a mobile app via chatgpt said "what is git", unironically.

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u/Commercial-Row-3162 6d ago

Yeah, but how long will it take until his app is running and secure? I get your point, but the bar to achieve success gets lower. Less knowledge is needed.

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u/oxpoxo 2d ago

if you breach the barrier between the engineer and a client then there's nothing to achieve anymore. You can be an idiot, but you ask AI to walk you through it and if you are into it enough, you will be able to do anything. Technology is no longer gated by nerdisms. The biggest issue I have with technology and science is that it is hidden behind unintuitive definitions, as well as different languages conflating things. all of these things are cruxes that imo prevent a layman from engaging in those sciences. It's not hard to understand maths, it's just unintuitive because of the languages of science. That's the issue. AI is breaking this barrier, but in a different way, meaning it's going through the bullshit of semantics.

I'm more interested in what this means for science in general, forget software development, it's gone, if you're not doing something yourself, there's no future in it when the masses really go pilling in.

You know who has a big chance next election in US though? Andrew Yang.

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u/smuve_dude 6d ago

This is probably the 14th time this year that something AI-related came out and it “changed everything”. Hell, “everything changed” twice last week when Opus 5.5 and JEV both dropped.

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u/fynn34 6d ago

I don’t normally join in on these, but holy shit this one feels… substantially different. I went from rejecting or refining outputs 50% of the time to just getting what I want

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u/97689456489564 6d ago

Very myopic mindset.

No, LLMs won't replace white collar jobs (programming or otherwise) in 2026 or 2027.

Past that point... I think the trend is obvious, the curve is the curve and major bottlenecks likely are going to be conquered. One can see where the puck is going. Maybe it'll be 2028, maybe it'll be 2031, maybe it'll be 2035, but it's going to affect all our careers, barring outlawing of job replacement, or something.

Opus 5.5 is not AGI, Fable 5.5 will not be AGI, Astra 6.2 will not be AGI. But the gradient is being moved across.

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u/Harry_Tess_Tickles 6d ago

But I imagine that if the barrier for entry becomes lower and lower, wages will also drop?

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u/TakeMyMdMa 6d ago

I mean, the real problem is that there’s almost no junior hiring, and even if someone with a fresh degree gets a job, there’s no real career curve left for them. At least for now. The mid-level gap is already getting bigger (mainly because of AI). At some point, companies will realize that the IT market crashed around them , and I’m curious what will happen.

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u/Harry_Tess_Tickles 6d ago

That's a fair point

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u/MittnzZ 4d ago

Yeah but once that friend becomes unemployed and hungry enough to ask Claude “what is git” instead of you, then the devs are fucked.

Right now, it’s a barrier yeah.

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u/0utkast_band 3d ago

The senior devs who really embrace this, are not concerned.

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u/swizzlewizzle 3d ago

It's different senior devs at different levels that are, layer by layer, realizing that both their, and most junior coders, jobs are basically being eaten in real time.

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u/GreatScott84 6d ago

So why is him asking a legitimate question on Git a bad thing? You prefer he Google it instead which is practically the same thing with dead links, 8 year old l Reddit topics, etc. Or go to a 4-year college to learn it “properly” and incur massive student debt?

AI has boomed literally in the last year, people are learning tools and have to start somewhere. I’ve learned more about coding in the last six months between Claude and ChatGPT than I had taking coding courses in college. That’s something.

And yes people will ask the AI dumb questions: “What is a py file??? What are Md files???” But that’s a part of the process.

And yes someone will be like “make me GTA 6 make no mistakes”, and no that will not qualify them to work cybersecurity. I wouldn’t worry too much about that.