Mixed
I've been very impressed with Claude 4.5 and have been using it daily at work
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In the thread “Ask HN: Are you afraid of AI making you unemployable within the next few years?”
Helped: Produces clean, well-documented code and tests.
Got in the way: Missed deadlock issues in concurrent Python methods.
I think AI will substantially thin out the ranks of programmers over the next five years or so. I've been very impressed with Claude 4.5 and have been using it daily at work. It tends to produce very good, clean, well-documented code and tests. …