> Hallucination does seem to be much less of an issue now. I hardly even hear about it - like it just faded away.

Nonsense, there is a TON of discussion around how the standard workflow is "have Cursor-or-whatever check the linter and try to run the tests and keep iterating until it gets it right" that is nothing but "work around hallucinations." Functions that don't exist. Lines that don't do what the code would've required them to do. Etc. And yet I still hit cases weekly-at-least, when trying to use these "agents" to do more complex things, where it talks itself into a circle and can't figure it out.

What are you trying to get these things to do, and how are you validating that there are no hallucinations? You hardly ever "hear about it" but ... do you see it? How deeply are you checking for it?

(It's also just old news - a new hallucination is less newsworthy now, we are all so used to it.)

Of course, the internet is full of people claiming that they are using the same tools I am but with multiple factors higher output. Yet I wonder... if this is the case, where is the acceleration in improvement in quality in any of the open source software I use daily? Or where are the new 10x-AI-agent-produced replacements? (Or the closed-source products, for that matter - but there it's harder to track the actual code.) Or is everyone who's doing less-technical, less-intricate work just getting themselves hyped into a tizzy about getting faster generation of basic boilerplate for languages they hadn't personally mastered before?