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
I use agents for coding small stuff at work almost every day. I would say there has been some improvement compared to a year ago but it’s not any sort of step change. They still are only able to complete simple “intern-level” tasks around 50% of the time. Which is helpful but not revolutionary.