The copium is I think many people got comfortable post financial crisis with nothing much changing or happening. I think many people really liked a decade stretch with not much more than web framework updates and smart phone versioning.

We are just back on track.

I just read Oracular Programming: A Modular Foundation for Building LLM-Enabled Software the other day.

We don't even have a new paradigm yet. I would be shocked that in 10 years I don't look back at this time of writing a prompt into a chatbot and then pasting the code into an IDE as completely comical.

The most shocking thing to me is we are right back on track to what I would have expected in 2000 for 2025. In 2019 those expectations seemed like science fiction delusions after nothing happening for so long.