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Yes, I hate them for all other purposes but for software it is unreal. As long as you're the centaur, at least.
They can't stick to a plan, none of them can, they're terrible for that. But for short feedback loop work with frequent verification and good test coverage, there's nothing else like it. That's the key difference between software and other domains; you can rigorously test it, and you'll put hands on it before it goes to a customer. If you care even a little bit, the experience doesn't have to be sloppy for the consumer.
I can show opus (4.8 high is the sweet spot) a screenshot of an error message and a problem description and it'll trace back from that error message across four different repos and have a fix ready in under a half an hour, basically every time. Logic that would have taken me hours to trace through by hand on codebases I know really well.
I had a big, nasty, multi-table join database query that badly needed optimization. I told claude to design and build a test database that reproduced the issue and then iterate on query shapes that would get the query planner to do the right thing. Ultimately I unlocked it by suggesting a small schema change, which it implemented and tested almost as fast as I could type it out. 175x improvement in maybe an hour, after dozens of hours of real engineer effort over the years. I just needed a 3D display to wave my hands around and stare pensively at for the full Tony Stark / Jarvis experience.
It's hard to argue with the results; with claude in my hands I have been able to fix everything about the product that has ever bugged me going back a decade. Of course, since we have this tool now, my company let two thirds of the engineers go... given the choice I'd rather just have them back.
Anthropic and OpenAI are both screwed in the medium term though. Fable and Opus 5 are not only too expensive, they're functional regressions in my team's experience. And Kimi is already as good as Opus in real world use. Qwen3.8-27B will run on my laptop and is as good as Sonnet.