Claude 3.5 didn't have "reasoning" - Anthropic first added that in 3.7 less than a year ago.

The RL for code problems that supported reasoning modes has been the driving force behind most of the model improvements for code over 2025: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/31/the-year-in-llms/#the-...

> Then you shouldn't respect Antirez's opinion, because he wrote articles saying just that 2 years ago.

Which articles? What did he say?

https://antirez.com/news/154 is one from six months ago where he says:

> Despite the large interest in agents that can code alone, right now you can maximize your impact as a software developer by using LLMs in an explicit way, staying in the loop.