It's great. I remember bemoaning how little things had really changed between 2006 and 2016. Given that in theory software is infinitely malleable I found it depressing how it felt like we were just doing the same things. It's exciting we've finally unblocked progress and are finding amazing new ways to work, although I never would have foreseen this being the way! 2026 sure feels nothing like 2016.

I would argue really it's less than 9 months. At the start of the year then models/AI really weren't capable of shipping production code etc without hand holding...

Todo's left in code, mock implementations instead of fully working, people doing Ralph loops etc

It's an entirely different situation now