Since the release of Opus 5.5 I have more work than ever and it enables me to move out from the coding I never really enjoyed to a full stack product engineering.
I'm also working on transitioning from a classic SWE to a small independent team doing our own products.
Sure I won't make as much money for doing bullshit changes in some old legacy system but I will actually deliver things people will like using, and I'll be in touch with other people on a daily basis.
Nice, now the less-than-14d old accounts are teaming up to push the narrative for the upcoming IPO
I have zero stock or interest in Anthropic IPO, moreover I really hope open weights catch up price-wise to what Claude Max provides (tokens there are heavily subsidized right now), so that I can make a switch and not feed the beast.
I'd like to also use a model on my owm hardware, but alas, I'm relatively young in the industry and my wallet is not fat enough for a local AI stack.