Love this, opus 5.5 is absolutely nuts at optimization. I was able to use it to get some 10x performance improvements recently.

It seems like the tide is finally starting to turn here in terms of LLM usage. Even 4 months ago this thread would be a nightmare lol

It’s a good thing Sam Altman isn’t Anthropic !

Worth calling out 3 years ago SWEs were also 10-15 years out from being automated.

Things change very fast nowadays.

Probably the right decision given there’s no way to truly tell what level of AI generation or effort within the project itself with AI has taken place.

I understand the willingness to ban low effort low quality one shot projects, but given most software nowadays incorporating some level of LLMs, I can’t ever see a blanket ban working out anywhere.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they depreciated this at the same time, it’s just less known about so wasn’t included in the announcement.

Almost everyone in the industry worth their weight is using LLMs now. Top tier models create really solid code nowadays.

Leetcode seems pretty useless right now. I think a take home, the results, and a conversation will lead to a really solid hiring signal though.

Anyone have any recommendations?

Can’t get over how much I love Babs Olusanmokun as M’Benga

This may have been true last year but nowadays AI is far better and more thorough, and faster than 90% of devs when driven by someone knowledgeable.