November 2025. That’s when we officially “got there.”
Any software developer who is not learning how to make the most of these tools is going to find themselves left behind in short order.
I have never been an “AI optimist;” I’ve always thought of AI as glorified autocomplete.
That changed when I tried Claude Code + Opus 4.5 at the end of 2025.
I’m not speaking just for effect when I say that software development has changed, practically overnight, and it will never be the same again.
If you’re a skeptic, read this article:
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/when-ai-writes-almost-all-code-what