Why aren't we shipping faster now?

Re:Why aren't we shipping faster now? by RugnirViking on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:54AM (#50468317)

these models with passable agent performance have been around for a year now. how many months of days is that? are you saying you're getting an entire year's worth of programming done every 12 days? more than two years' worth a month? over 12 months thats more than 24 years, practically an entire career.

Do you think you've achieved that output of your entire career before ai this year?

For me its more like 2 days of work turned to one day, give or take. And I'm not that good of a programmer.

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Re:Why aren't we shipping faster now? by 0xb0565e486 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @04:07PM (#50474285)

I think so! From my point of view I don't think that these models have been passable for around a year now. Seems to me that opus 5.5 and fable 5.2 are really ramping things up.

Especially on the vision side of things, and being able to be steered in a direction I'm finally happy with.

Give you a few examples:

- Couple of projects at work that where shelved due to being too long, have been merged in a few weeks.

- I generated a whole icon pack in a weekend using fable 5.2 (haven't been able to make this with any other model)

- On the personal side, I build a few smart devices (PCB included and housing printing) in a few days. Something that would have taken me who knows what long!

- I have agents roaming the app findings ~20 visual quirks at work per day. I used to take a whole day to patch between 5-10.

Obviously for some projects things don't change and it's still 1:1 speed, but other 1:100 even..!

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