I was going back and looking at timelines, and was shocked to realize that Claude Code and Cursor's default-to-agentic-mode changes both came out in late February. Essentially the entire history of "mainstream" agentic coding is ten months old.

(This helps me understand better the people who are confused/annoyed/dismissive about it, because I remember how dismissive people were about Node, about Docker, about Postgres, about Linux when those things were new too. So many arguments where people would passionately talk about all those things were irredeemably stupid and only suitable for toy/hobby projects.)

The entire history of RL-trained "reasoning models" from o1 to DeepSeek_R1 is basically just a year old!