Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit

Im able to get substantially more coding done than three months ago. This could be largely in the tooling (coding agents, deep research). But the models are better too, for both coding and brainstorming. And tooling counts, to me, as progress.

Learning to harness current tools helps to harness future tools. Work on projects that will benefit from advancements, but can succeed without them.

I'm not sure if I'm able to do more of the hard stuff, but a lot of the easy but time consuming stuff is now easily done by LLMs.

Example: I frequently get requests for data from Customer Support that used to require 15 minutes of my time noodling around writing SQL queries. I can cut that down to less than a minute now.

Yes I am a better engineer with every release. I think this is mostly empirically validated