[elcritch]

I don’t know, GPT-5.5 has been very effective for me. It’s not perfect but the quality of refactoring it can do is awesome.

Previous models both GPT and Claude would struggle with the larger picture more. Pretty quickly they’d do one off hacks. Eventually they’d code themselves into a wall if you weren’t careful.

Haven’t hit that wall with GPT-5.5 yet. New changes or improvements on a GUI library I’m building seem to be constant in time per feature.

Though I’m talking only 10k’s of LOC. Also I’m using Nim which is both strongly typed and concise.

[willtemperley]

> Haven’t hit that wall with GPT-5.5

I’m seeing a similar improvement with Opus 4.8, which is acting like an engineer that cares about correctness. The harder the problem the better it seems to do.

I think a golden age of software is just starting for indie software. It’s just going to take a while to see the first really good results.

[SkiFire13]

This is what people say after every new model is released though.

[reactordev]

You have to drink the koolaid if you want to keep tokenmaxxing

[elcritch]

Who cares about tokens?

I'm wanting to build pieces of software that I've been wanting and often working on for years. These new models are making it possible for me to scale my work to build it.