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Most of "What are you working on?" is AI assisted; not much is shipped.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=working%20author%3Adavid927&so...

Checking all the past "what are you working on?" threads just to realize that, somewhere in August 2024 stuff just exploded and the average thread goes reached ~1000 messages, from ~50 pre-August.

Tons of ppl got into CS in last few years worldwide.

I don't think that explains it. CS has been an extremely popular degree for at least the past 20 years. Not to mention coding bootcamps and the like.

The obvious notable event circa 2024 was LLMs becoming reasonably useful for code assistance (IMO and IIRC OFC).

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