We are just about there with Opus 4.5. By summer next year if you’re reading code you are admitting you suck at software engineering, and haven’t figured out how to be effective in this new environment. You’re slow, you’re behind, you haven’t leveled up. Walking dead
To be a good software engineer next year you need to understand that reading code is a failure mode. To verify systems you need to be using dynamics, not statics. The code should be testing itself, proving that it works in ways that transcend “a smart guy looked at it.” Barbaric