PL researcher admits Opus 5.5 is already a better programmer than him
tweetsatpreet · x · 2026-10-25
In a widely shared exchange, programming languages researcher samth said Claude Opus 5.5 is "probably a better programmer than I am already." Commenters added that engineers like Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, and Matthew Flatt will be among the last humans still standing as AI coding surpasses most programmers.
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