Mixed
It codes well when you tell it what to do, but it is still dumb about what is the real problem (and so the real solution)
flaburgan on Hacker News
x1000 perf with 3 lines of code
In the thread “Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?”
Helped: Optimizing a specific SQL query when given explicit instructions.
Got in the way: Failing to identify that the query frequency was the root cause.
… I would have expected it to say that this query didn't have to be executed that many times in the first place. It codes well when you tell it what to do, but it is still dumb about what is the real problem (and so the real solution). That's worrying me a bit because Opus 5.5 clearly is SOTA, so better than any open weights models, and I really want to be able to run smart models locally on my laptop for independence and privacy reasons. …