How Claude Opus 4.5 Made Me Take AI Coding Seriously
The Skeptic I’ll be honest: before Claude Opus 4.5, I didn’t take AI coding assistants seriously. They were a gimmick. A tech demo. Something to show off on YouTube but not something you’d actually rely on for real work. I’d tried the earlier models. They’d write code that looked right but wasn’t. They’d hallucinate APIs that didn’t exist. They’d solve the wrong problem confidently. For someone who’s been writing code since 2008, it felt like having an enthusiastic junior developer who never learned from their mistakes. ...