> It's tiring reading daily/weekly "Advanced new solution to that problem we said was the advanced new solution last month"

At least for the current iterations that come to mind here, every advanced new solution solves the problem for a subset of problems, and the advanced new solution after that solves it for a subset of the remaining problems.

E.g. if you are tool calling with a fixed set of 10 tools you don't _need_ anything outlined in this blog post (though, you may use it as token count optimization).

It's just the same as in other programming disciplines. Nobody is forcing you to stay up to date with frontend framework trends if you have a minimally interactive frontend where a <form> elements already solves your problem. Similarly, nobody forces you to stay up-to-date with AI trends on a daily basis. There are still plenty of product problems ready to be exploited, that do well enough with state of AI & dumb prompt engineering from a year ago.