Yes
Opus 4.5 feels like an enormous productivity booster for existing developers
ekidd on Hacker News
couple of hours of planning
In the thread “If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?”, replying to this comment
Helped: Building credible feature drafts after planning.
Got in the way: Cannot work alone on large projects.
… So right now? Opus 4.5 feels like an enormous productivity booster for existing developers (which may indirectly create unemployment or increase the demand for software enough to create jobs), but it can't work on large projects on an ongoing basis without a knowledgeable human. So it's more like a tractor than anything else: It might cause programmer unemployment, but eh, life happens. …