You have to consider that there is a chilling effect in the open source space because llm use has now become an ideological battle, and people have lost their collective minds over it.

Bun did a nearly 100% hands off keyboard rewrite. And people largely ridiculed the effort with mud slinging and goal post moving.

There are plenty of measurable examples of the productivity boost when there is a well defined oracle, such as rewrites and (kind of)formally verified specifications.

I've got an agent harness that I built that decompiles games. Don't want to dox myself on this account, so this is all I'll say about it.

I may have been able to decompile 1 game a year into readable source. Now I can offload nearly all of that process to an Nvidia 5090 and the extremely cheap deepseek v4 flash.

With dedicated focus and a lot of personal time, or employer time, I may have been able to reconstruct a good amount of react linting rules to biome. But instead, by focusing on a harness that can prove parity, I can get all of the rules ported while I sleep or solve other institutional problems.

Once you can prove the outcome, however hard or soft you need based on the domain, the output gains are literally undeniable.

Imo the vaporware is all of these "one-shot" projects that people love to show off. Once the market corrects and the hypecycle dies down theres going to be a lot of interesting engineering in this space. Right now there's a bit of a Cambrian explosion of ideas, and for better or worst that space fills up with the over the enthusiastic and chareltons.

Fragmented thoughts I'm typing while walking, the point is murky