Comment by simonw
19 hours ago
> Why didn’t delta airlines get significantly more operationally efficient in the last 3 months due to the introduction of better software?
The coding agents got good in November. Most individual engineers didn't fully clock this until January/February. This means that companies didn't really figure it out until March/April.
Assuming companies like Delta have adopted coding agents (which would be pretty fast) it still takes months from adopting a new tool to the code results of that tool rolling out to production.
I expect (and would hope) Delta's software development culture is very conservative. Since nobody can confidently tell Delta "here are proven practices for using this tech to produce high quality, more secure code" yet it would be surprising if they were blasting full-steam ahead.
I expect that even companies that got on board with coding agents in January will only just be starting to ship user-facing features that benefited from those new tools. Shipping software takes a long time, no matter how much faster the "typing the code in" bit gets!
>The coding agents got good in November.
Maybe irrelevant to your point, but I'd argue they were really good already in May if one used the right workflow (planning etc.). They've become better, but they're not saving me significantly more time now than they did 12 months ago.