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Re:Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I hav... by throwaway173738 on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @09:55PM (#46521983)
php was still fundamentally a programming language you had to learn. This is “I wanted to make a program for my wife to do something she doesn’t have time to do manually” but made quickly with a machine. It’s probably going to do for programming what the Jacquard Loom did for cloth. Make it cheap enough that everyone can have lots of different shirts of their own style.
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Re:Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I hav... by jasonfarnon on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @02:16AM (#46523514)
But the wife didn't do it herself. He still had to do it for her, the author says. I don't think (yet) we're at the point where every person who has an idea for a really good app can make it happen. They'll still need a wozniak, it's just that wozniaks will be a dime a dozen. The php analogy works.
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Re:Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I hav... by inopinatus on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @08:05AM (#46525953)
What the Jacquard machine did for cloth was turn it into programming.
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