Re:Sonnet 5.5
by satvikpendem on Monday September 28, 2026 @07:53PM
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LLMs these days write better architected and produced code than most programmers, so the fallacy that LLMs produce slop code is increasingly false.
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Every new generation of model goes and cleans up the slop of its predecessor in my code bases, and it has turned out to be quite effective.
Last year I held off on implementing a few features knowing that a model like Opus 5.5 was around the corner. I'm now implementing them in a much more efficient and quality manner than I could have fall of 2025.
Re:Sonnet 5.5
by satvikpendem on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @02:17AM
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Indeed. Maybe people down voting me don't like to admit it but when models train on the entirety of human input you can assume they'd be better than the average human.
This is probably why web development and scripts are much more effective domains while anyone working on anything even slightly off the track is either tearing their hair out or writing a new layer of software to write the software.