Since November when opus 4.6 launched and was a proper step change in the capability of coding models I've oscillated between fear/doomerism and unbridled excitement at what you can do with them.

No idea where it's going to end up in terms of impact of the tech job market (and broader societal impact I guess too) but on a more narrow level it's pretty cool to see the democratisation of people being able to turn ideas into working prototypes or just small tools that let them get stuff done (and automate boring stuff).

In the past month or two I've made a few apps at home in completely new to me tech stacks and architecture - deployed them and have them running. Something I'd never have been able to do prior.

For sure it's a chaotic time and literally every week seems to bring something new that supersedes something that was the cutting edge from last week but mourning was too strong. It sucks having the skills you built over years being eroded rapidly but by the same measure the personality traits that seemed to help you build those skills, also help you harness what's here now and what's coming next. What's coming next does seem pretty fun if you have the right ideas.