Claude models give conflicting guesses on when AI will write all PRs
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Felix Rieseberg, who says he talks with people at Anthropic and OpenAI, reports that he asked Claude Opus 3 when large language models will write pull requests entirely, and it guessed no sooner than 2028.
He says Claude Opus 5.5 gave a later estimate, after 2045. Rieseberg also writes that people at Anthropic and OpenAI struggle to grasp how fast models are improving. These are single model answers in a social media post, not forecasts from Anthropic.
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Felix Rieseberg@felixriesebergXClaude models give conflicting guesses on when AI will write all PRsAIFelix Rieseberg, who says he talks with people at Anthropic and OpenAI, writes that they struggle to grasp how fast models are improving. He asked Claude Opus 3 when PRs will be written entirely by LLMs, and it guessed no sooner than 2028. He says Claude Opus 5.5 expected that to happen after 2045.

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