> have we seen great new products or improvements in the products we use over the past 12,24,36 months

This sentiment drives me nuts.

I'm on a handful of software dev subreddits and the amount of new products popping up has tripled since these tools became available.

I also don't understand how you'd expect to measure this. Is there some single list of all software that's been released that annotates whether AI was used? Do you have some feed of every project that hits GitHub that you're meticulously tracking? The idea that you personally should have seen these improvements or they didn't happen is wild to me.

I work in healthcare. Where the # of products has skyrocketed due to these tools. Some are bad, some are good. But to say that nothing has come out of it is just objectively not true.