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People were saying this back in December as well. Can you explain what differences you're seeing compared to three weeks ago that is indicative of a paradigm shift?
Originally, I had kind of given up on claude code a few months ago because it was wasting more time than it was saving me. It would lose the plot pretty quickly even though my instructions and the goal were still well within the context window. I considered this an architectural limit of LLMs.
But as of the last two weeks, holy shit. claude codex (and codex), they just grind away at problems. They don't lose the plot. They back out and try different approaches. They run micro experiment to test assumptions. They'll run the tools with --help and --version and check the man page. They'll step through the code of the installed version of meson to see why the config file is not behaving the way it expects. I just give them like one simple prompt and it'll chug away for 15-30 minutes just trying shit like an overly caffeinated engineer. They'll run builds and look at errors and fix them until it's clean.
And again, they don't lose sight of the goal. It's amazing.
Fascinating. I guess I missed the window by about three days. I'll have to see if I can convince the boss to approve a purchase order
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