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> breathing life into these things that 3 years ago were laughable science fiction

LLMs were not fiction three years ago. Bidirectional text encoders are over a decade old.

Coding agents is what I’m talking about, they are also an old idea, everything is an old idea, what is new and a major step change is the realized capability of them in December 2025.

You are the first person I've ever heard call Dec 2025 a "major step change" moment in AI. And I've been following this space since BERT.

No, I’m saying AS OF Dec 2025. 2025 itself being a step change in that coding agent adoption has undergone a step change as a result of model quality and agent interface being good enough.

Understood, but I still think you're exaggerating. Tool use is a 2024 thing, and progress on model quality this year has been downright vomit-inducing (looking at you, OpenAI...)

What would you have expected model quality to have been this year, it’s greatly exceeded my expectations, I’m genuinely confused by this perspective…considering where we were a very very short time ago

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