> I've built more (and better) software in the past month than I did in any given year in the 30+ years I've been programming
I feel similarly, but I think it's a valid question. Why is all the software I'm using not getting better? To be honest, I feel it's more buggy than it's ever been.
You can use LLMs to make your software better, but it's easier to use them to make it worse.
Companies need to radically change to be able to take advantage. Most companies are afraid to do that and are letting their engineers serve as slow meat proxies, doing software development basically the same way as before.