No
It started off well but then disintegrated once it got overwhelmed at the sheer number of files it had to change
koyote on Hacker News
refactoring about 30-40 classes
In the thread “Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far”, replying to this comment
Helped: Precise instructions and well-documented greenfield projects.
Got in the way: Large codebase refactoring due to context limits and error loops.
… I threw Opus at it with very precise instructions as to what I wanted it to do and how I wanted it to do it. It started off well but then disintegrated once it got overwhelmed at the sheer number of files it had to change. At some point it got stuck in some kind of an error loop where one change it made contradicted with another change and it just couldn't work itself out. …