Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.
I am doing more scientific programming than boiler plate stuff, but for me Opus 4.6 crushes codex 5.3 in so many ways (mostly via GitHub copilot extension in VScode). It doesn’t just implement a thing, it does quality architecting and refinement.