Going Back in Time

I&rsquo;ve been trying to adapt my coding workflow to LLMs for a while. The way I use LLMs has definitely changed over time and I&rsquo;ve written about it here and here . In my experience, around late 2025/early 2026, SOTA models crossed some threshold and made a significant leap in coding performance. When Opus 4.5 and then later GPT-5.3-Codex came out, suddenly you could trust the output of…