How I Rediscovered Enthusiasm in the World of Technology After the Rise of LLMs

When LLMs entered my daily life as a software engineer, my feeling was that you could talk about anything with them, and it seemed like there was a real human being on the other side. Back in 2022, users would access ChatGPT to ask it anything - including software coding problems (sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't, sometimes you had to tweak things a little). Now, in 2026, LLMs like Claude Opus 4.5 make you realize that the code they write is better than that of a senior software engineer.