My Opus 4.5 Moment
The "ChatGPT moment" was November 30, 2022, the day OpenAI released the first version of ChatGPT. It wasn't just a technological leap; it was a usability leap that took an LLM and put it behind a simple, free chat interface that reached 100 million users in just two months.
If you had asked me a year ago about LLMs for coding, I would have explained they were helpful but overhyped. They wrote some functions I would refactor, and I often got stuck in a loop of pasting error messages with "fix this". But then, just 3 years after the first ChatGPT, on 30 November 2025, Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.5. I realized I was wrong: I had my Opus moment.