It also went real fast from "GPT hallucinated a library, literally useless" to "this agent has created this entire service up to spec, no notes".

It seems that we are getting bitten by the law that says things that can be measured trumps things that cannot be.

How fast it was to create an initial version of a piece of software can be easily measured.

But how efficient it is, how easy it is to make changes to it, how easy it is to debug it, how easy it is to extend in the direction that the domain requires...all these cannot be easily measured or quantified, but is 10 times more important than that initial creation time....For a software that has to run and maintained for decades delivering value all that time, it does not really matter if the initial version was created in 5 minutes or 1 month, if the 5 minute version does not contribute negatively to all those non-measurable, non-marketable traits of the software.

It is like how camera marketing was mostly around the megapixel value, instead of something vastly more important like low light performance, dynamic range, or fast auto-focus. Because the LCD of the market won't be able to grasp the relevance, and would not act on it. So it was all about megapixel, but at least that does not have a lot of negative consequence unlike the marketing around AI...