Here’s the thing from the skeptic perspective: This statement keeps getting made on a rolling basis. 6 months ago if I wasn’t using the life-changing, newest LLM at the time, I was also doing it wrong and being a luddite.
It creates a never ending treadmill of boy-who-cried-LLM. Why should I believe anything outlined in the article is transformative now when all the same vague claims about productivity increases were being made about the LLMs from 6 months ago which we now all agree are bad?
I don’t really know what would actually unseat this epistemic prior at this point for me.
In six months, I predict the author will again think the LLM products of 6 month ago (now) were actually not very useful and didn’t live up to the hype.
Using Claude Sonnet 4, I attempted to add some better configuration to my golang project. An hour later, I was unable to get it to produce a usable configuration, apparently due to a recent v1-to-v2 config format migration. It took less time to hand-edit one based on reading the docs.
I keep getting told that this time agents are ready. Every time I decide to use them they fall flat on their face. Guess I'll try again in six months.