There is a flip side to this, which is that I've got 25 years of experience in how long it takes to build something, and that's all completely gone. That doesn't work anymore because I can look at a problem and say, "Okay, well, this is going to take two weeks. It's not worth it." And now it's like, yeah, but maybe it's going to take 20 minutes, because the reason it would've taken two weeks was all of the crufty coding things that the AI is now covering for us. And that I've been finding really interesting and challenging. I constantly throw tasks at AI that I don't think it'll be able to do, because every now and then it does it. And when it doesn't do it, you learn. You learn, okay, Opus 4.6 still can't do this particular thing, but when it does do something, especially something that the previous models couldn't do, that's actually cutting edge AI research. You can be the first person in the world to spot that AI can now do X just because you were the person you found it couldn't do it and you've been keeping that sort of backlog of interesting tasks for it.
You learn, okay, Opus 4.6 still can't do this particular thing, but when it does do something, especially something that the previous models couldn't do, that's actually cutting edge AI research.