Re:Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks: Opus 4.5 has...
by lordnacho on Sunday December 21, 2025 @06:32AM
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> I wanted the feature more than I wanted to know how to build the feature
This is exactly what LLMs are great for. For instance, I'm looking at trading models. I want to think about buying and selling. I need some charts to look at, but I'm not a chart wizard. I can make basic charts, but it feels tedious to actually learn the model of how the charting software works. LLM will just give me the chart code for the visualization I want, and if I ever care to learn about it, I have it in a form that is relevant to me, not the form of the API documents.
In general, a lot of coding is like this. You have some end goal in mind, but there's a bunch of little things that need to be knitted together, and the knitting used to take a lot of time.
I like to say the LLM has reduced my toil while getting me to the same place. I can even do multiple projects at once, only really applying myself where there is a decision to be made, and it's all possible because I'm not sorting out the minutiae of some incidental API.
This is exactly what LLMs are great for. For instance, I'm looking at trading models. I want to think about buying and selling. I need some charts to look at, but I'm not a chart wizard. I can make basic charts, but it feels tedious to actually learn the model of how the charting software works. LLM will just give me the chart code for the visualization I want, and if I ever care to learn about it, I have it in a form that is relevant to me, not the form of the API documents.
In general, a lot of coding is like this. You have some end goal in mind, but there's a bunch of little things that need to be knitted together, and the knitting used to take a lot of time.
I like to say the LLM has reduced my toil while getting me to the same place. I can even do multiple projects at once, only really applying myself where there is a decision to be made, and it's all possible because I'm not sorting out the minutiae of some incidental API.