"Humans are reality's sensory layer": devs concede coding supremacy to Opus
robleclerc · x · 2026-10-25
- Quoted developer: Claude Opus 5.5 is a far better developer than he ever was or will be — "no point in competing, just surrendering" and shifting work beyond engineering.
- Rob Leclerc's response: humans are the sensory layer to reality, ontologically and epistemologically privileged relative to AI — our role is seeing problems and opportunities ahead and prioritizing them, not implementation details.
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