The quality of AI-assisted software depends on unit of work management

> most SWE folks still have no idea how big the difference is between the coding agents they tried a year ago and declared as useless and chatgpt 5 paired with Codex or Cursor today

yes, just as was said each and every previous time OpenAI/anthropic shit out a new model

"now it doesn't suck!"

Each and every new model expands the scope of what you can do. You notice that, get elated when things that didn’t work start working, then three weeks later the honeymoon period is over and you notice the remaining limits.

The hedonic treadmill ensures it feels the same way each time.

But that doesn’t mean the models aren’t improving, nor that the scope isn’t expanding. If you compare today’s tools to those a year ago, the difference is stark.

She is choosing GPT5 as the good example? Maybe Claude, maybe..