The Genie Strikes Back

Six months is an eternity in the age of LLMs. In hindsight, committing to a post about how I don&rsquo;t use LLMs was a bit naïve given the steady pace of LLM improvements from frontier labs. Since part two of this series, we&rsquo;ve seen the release of, among others, Claude Opus 4.5, 4.6, and 4.7; GPT 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, and 5.5; Gemini Pro 3 and 3.1; Qwen 3 Max and 3.5; Kimi K2.5 and K2.6; GLM 5 and…