> should expect maybe 5x faster cycle in major software apps
To what end and what would that even look like though? Enshittifying everything at maximum speed? The apps/platforms I use regularly - GitHub, Spotify, Google maps (just to name a few), have gotten noticeably shittier in recent times.
>GitHub, Spotify, Google maps (just to name a few), have gotten noticeably shittier in recent times.
What if AI lets you create new versions of those tools, but without the enshitification?
I say that being in the "soaking" stage of using AI to rebuild a shitty software project in 70KLOC over about 2 weeks of spare time, so this may not be as theoretical as you might think.