Mixed
I'm the biggest bottle neck in terms of reviewing PRs and my own code
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solve a complex task in 10 minutes vs 30 minutes
In the thread “Claude Opus 4.8”, replying to this comment
Helped: A good planning phase is more valuable than major model improvements.
Got in the way: Faster model speed did not improve workflow due to review bottleneck.
Ive been using gpt 5.4 and 5.5 and honestly 5.4 is solving everything at the pace I need it. I'm the biggest bottle neck in terms of reviewing PRs and my own code. So having a model which can solve a complex task in 10 minutes vs 30 minutes doesn't really give me any meaningful improvement. …