alt Hacker News>> Have you not used one since Opus 4.5 came out?
Every time there's a new model This Changes Everything. Every single time.
Every time someone points out a limitation of LLMs it's always the same refrain: "Have you tried the latest? Because they're so much better now!". Except this happens with every single model generation. Every time the new models are so good that it's a seismic shift, a step change, a paradigm shift. It's like the finest curve asymptoting ever upwards, a few billions of training cost at a time.
But- to where? AI keeps getting so groundbreakingly better and we're still stuck in the same old world, except now you can...
... port your unmaintained app from 2017 to modern Android? Why was your app unmaintained? What is the societal and technological upheaval that will come from automating such low-stakes tasks? For such huge costs?
But it is now possible for a very non technical user to vibe code Grand Theft Auto II for fun. In two years they'll be able to vibe code GTA V for fun.
Likewise with many other things - people who don't know how to code can produce large custom programs which do what they needed. They're probably not amazingly well written nor maintainable by a human with limited time on their hands but that also doesn't matter at all for nearly all use cases.