Also people tend to forget that LLMs still just work on compressed data... Where are the MAJOR breakthroughs? Where is all the "crazy" AI output going? Software seemed to degrade in quality a lot in the recent years. All "improvements" LLMs go through are simply improvements on how to burn more tokens out of my pockets given that Claude now want an actual browser extension to "visually" confirm small changes every time I use it for UI. They are still just data parrots.

There’s a small group of established architects talking about harness engineering, but I’m not sure anyone is actually listening to them.

And those same architects are quietly extracting real productivity from GenAI.

And even this write up skips that info by waving, “Some people…”