Comment by noonat

Speaking anecdotally, at least: I don't think the lack of publicly available software is necessarily evidence that AI tools are ineffective.

From the limited perspective I have as a senior developer working in industry, I think that:

1. It has been a relatively short amount of time since the November 2025 quality increase in frontier LLMs. 2. It takes time for developers to learn how to use agents effectively, once they begin to trust them. 3. There is a significant difference in the output quality dependent on how you guide the agent. 4. Experienced developers are creating lots of quality software that is used internally (or only personally by them) but which they don't have the time or confidence to release for others to use.