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Its unbelievable how much everything changed in less then 5 years.

Just imagine seeing this in 2021

I would argue really it's less than 9 months. At the start of the year then models/AI really weren't capable of shipping production code etc without hand holding...

Todo's left in code, mock implementations instead of fully working, people doing Ralph loops etc

It's an entirely different situation now

It's great. I remember bemoaning how little things had really changed between 2006 and 2016. Given that in theory software is infinitely malleable I found it depressing how it felt like we were just doing the same things. It's exciting we've finally unblocked progress and are finding amazing new ways to work, although I never would have foreseen this being the way! 2026 sure feels nothing like 2016.

Well, we've unlocked something. How much of it is progress remains to be seen. Definitely interesting times.

A lot of the AI hype these days reminds me of the infamous pets.com; but, of course, the general ideas of the dot-com boom did come to pass. (And if all ideas people had tried back then had turned out to be sound and successful, that would have been a surefire sign that they weren't trying out enough crazy stuff.)

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