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YesClaude · 19 Oct 2026

Claude Opus puts to shame any highly caffeinated “10x” software developer

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more than 20-40x faster

In the thread “"I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math”, replying to this comment

Helped: Difficult code analysis and reverse engineering tasks.

… I’ve long disliked the hype around AI but now see that human intelligence is perhaps slightly overrated, at least in terms of the loftier positions seemingly requiring such. Claude Opus puts to shame any highly caffeinated “10x” software developer. Not saying it’s perfect, but damn good. …