It is all marketing. The easiest way to tell is that a year ago the same people said the inflection point was X or Y model.
When people claim LLMs just don't work for them, the first question is whether they're using the latest model or not, and if not, dismissing the poster.
The thing is that that same question was being asked a year ago, and even a year before that, but with the models that lead to a dismissal today.
Just make the experiment yourself, wait 6 months, say LLMs just aren't working for the software engineering that you do, and people will dismiss you if you say that you use Opus 4.5 and not the latest model Claude MegaMind 8.8 pro max gigathinking. Despite this model being touted as the inflection point in this article.
When people claim LLMs just don't work for them, the first question is whether they're using the latest model or not, and if not, dismissing the poster.
The thing is that that same question was being asked a year ago, and even a year before that, but with the models that lead to a dismissal today.
Just make the experiment yourself, wait 6 months, say LLMs just aren't working for the software engineering that you do, and people will dismiss you if you say that you use Opus 4.5 and not the latest model Claude MegaMind 8.8 pro max gigathinking. Despite this model being touted as the inflection point in this article.