I avoided writing about my claude code psychosis and don't like referring to people as normies in a wide reaching publication, but yes I get your sentiment.
Actually, that feels like a very apt comparison! Never thought of that but it is true that Opus 4.5 is very beloved by programmers, I believe, like no other model before (the Sonnet models right before that came close though, and i still like to use the current one).
My experience with their customer service has been so bad that I still recommend caution for consumer users. Got an account used for family stuff randomly banned, and the process was a complete waste of time and is not up to industry standards.
I had this strange moment the other day: staring at the terminal, I flashed back to being a kid hacking away in cmd. Funny how the arc bends, you end up right back at the terminal :O
Nice intro music! And props for reading the article, that is alwas enjoyable.
"Software is becoming free and human design, specification, and entrepreneurship is the only limiting factor." Yes! Coding with Opus 4.5 really feels almost liberating.
I love Opus 4.5 but the cost is prohibitive. At this point I’m limited more by my wallet than my imagination/knowledge. I wish I had the funds to go full tilt with Gastown, there’s so much I could create.
I feel like this is AGI now! I felt like the initial launch of Claude Code was a huge unlock. The models have gotten much better over the course of 2025 but when Claude Code first dropped, it blew my mind and made me feel like we lived in a whole new world: https://joshuavaldez.com/1-week-with-claude-code/
The greatest unlock is using the Agent SDK inside sandboxes in the cloud.
Claude code with Opus 4.5 feels like being on catnip the entire workday - I suspect this is how the normies felt about gpt4o
I avoided writing about my claude code psychosis and don't like referring to people as normies in a wide reaching publication, but yes I get your sentiment.
Actually, that feels like a very apt comparison! Never thought of that but it is true that Opus 4.5 is very beloved by programmers, I believe, like no other model before (the Sonnet models right before that came close though, and i still like to use the current one).
My experience with their customer service has been so bad that I still recommend caution for consumer users. Got an account used for family stuff randomly banned, and the process was a complete waste of time and is not up to industry standards.
I had this strange moment the other day: staring at the terminal, I flashed back to being a kid hacking away in cmd. Funny how the arc bends, you end up right back at the terminal :O
Nice intro music! And props for reading the article, that is alwas enjoyable.
"Software is becoming free and human design, specification, and entrepreneurship is the only limiting factor." Yes! Coding with Opus 4.5 really feels almost liberating.
My experience exactly. I couldn't have put it better.
I was able to write ~120k lines, production quality, in 30 working days, by myself with claude.
It's like going from assembly to c++ in terms of abstraction layer. Now I architect, design, review, command.
Didn't the default change from non-thinking to thinking recently? That might explain why suddenly people are finding it easier to do hands off stuff.
no idea!
So you use claude code with desktop claude app?
ah I should've said, I use iterm2+Tmux so ONLY in the CLI and multiple Claude's at once :)
--dangerously-skip-permissions
YOLO
Using on mobile is here already. try omnara
Could we be exaggerating and it’s not as good as initially perceived?
No. It's no exaggeration.
I work on a sophisticated data science team that uses Claude to solve demanding problems in production, and it's hard to overstate the impact.
14Rayint. endron. c. y enronjit🏥
Claude is making terminal sexy again
I love Opus 4.5 but the cost is prohibitive. At this point I’m limited more by my wallet than my imagination/knowledge. I wish I had the funds to go full tilt with Gastown, there’s so much I could create.
I feel like this is AGI now! I felt like the initial launch of Claude Code was a huge unlock. The models have gotten much better over the course of 2025 but when Claude Code first dropped, it blew my mind and made me feel like we lived in a whole new world: https://joshuavaldez.com/1-week-with-claude-code/