80%+ of the time it's a oneshot for small-to-medium size features in an existing codebase that's fairly complex
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80%+ of the time it's a oneshot for small-to-medium size features
In the thread “Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far”, replying to this comment
Helped: Planning and providing context for small-to-medium features.
Got in the way: Handling higher and lower level software development concerns.
I don't know if you've tried Chatgpt-5.2 but I find codex much better for Rust mostly due to the underlying model. You have to do planning and provide context, but 80%+ of the time it's a oneshot for small-to-medium size features in an existing codebase that's fairly complex. I honestly have to say that it's a better programmer than I am, it's just not anywhere near as good a software developer for all of the higher and lower level concerns that are the other 50% of the job. …