There’s a lot of focus on the intelligence or “ability to solve complex problems” side of model capabilities, smarter models are cool and the last step function change in Nov 25 has been extremely impactful.
But there’s something lingering in the background, what does a world in which Opus 4.6 answers to almost any query in < 1s look like? Difficult to say.
From the perspective of a human programmer interacting with a harness we may see the development of a completely new kind of editor, in early 2026 one must pay the price of the LLM answer not being readily available by switching to a different task or by surfing the web, but that’s very expensive.
This new kind of editor doesn’t edit lines, nor procedures, it probably edits modules or groups of modules, these new abstractions need better names anyway, it will probably spring out of the existing harnesses, the <input> on its own is not enough, it could potentially be graph based, even very heavily graph based, what’s important is that the interface ( and by interface in this context I mainly mean shortcuts ) between the user and the editor is flawless, it must feel like vim.
Part of it is that the modules or group of modules that one is editing must be, well… readable, that’s the core challenge.
Ok, that’s the world where LLM answers are instant from the human programmer perspective, what about where the interface matters less?
Probably something like https://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=202511, that is so cool.
Jobs in 1983:
But a key thing about it is that, let’s say I could move 100 times faster than anyone in here. In the blink of your eye, I could run out there and I could grab a bouquet of fresh spring flowers or something. And I could run back in here and I could snap my fingers, and you would all think I was a magician or something. And yet I was basically doing a series of really simple instructions: moving, running out there, grabbing some flowers, running back, snapping my fingers. But I could just do them so fast that you would think that there was something magical going on.
yeah, something like that but instead of simple instructions it’s going to be more complex instructions.