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Opus 4.5, in the hands of someone who knows what they are doing, can develop software almost as fast as I can write specs and review code
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60% of my graduating class
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Helped: Writing specs and reviewing code while AI generates the implementation.
… I am not even quite sure I know how to manage a team of more than two programmers right now. Opus 4.5, in the hands of someone who knows what they are doing, can develop software almost as fast as I can write specs and review code. And it's just plain better at writing code than 60% of my graduating class was back in the day. …