If you think this is what LLMs are, then you are a bit behind the times. Opus 4.5 is a huge step up. The previous generation was good for starting basic hobby projects, now we can do pretty big time-consuming changes with it.
I have been extremely skeptical and dismissive of LLMs for a long time, but after a certain level of improvement you have to realize that at least for programming the advantages are substantial.
Well, what would those benefits be? I genuinely don't see what it's useful for.
From what I've seen, people spend an inordinate amount of time typing in "prompts", and the chatbot goes off and pretends to generate some code, and then the people have to work out what's wrong with it and type in another prompt.
So it looks like the humans get to do all the slow, time-consuming drudge work of typing stuff in and debugging the result, but the chatbot does the interesting part.
Yea ok, I see. That's not how I use Claude Code for sure. I can write or even speak fairly small sentences and it goes and does pretty big changes, and for some things I know it can do it correctly.
I think the interesting and useful part of the job is coming up with ideas to try and the design and getting the result. Typing code isn't really the fun part.
Indeed, every US child is now born -$108,000 in national debt due to the behavior of their parents.
The classic boondoggle state funded "big" projects have bankrupted many economies. Inflation corrected, people can expect $0.84 back for every dollar they now put into retirement plans. =3
