Honestly no offense, but for me nothing really changed in the last 12 months. It’s not one particular mistake by a company but everything is just so overhyped with little substance.
Skills to me is basically providing a read-only md file with guidelines. Which can be useful but somehow I don’t use it as maintaining my guidelines is more work then just writing a better prompt.
I’m not sure anymore if all the ai slop and stuff we create is beneficial anymore for us or it’s just creating a low quality problem in the future
12 months ago we didn't have Claude Code or Codex CLI - in fact the whole category of "coding agents" was very thin.
The only "reasoning" model was the o1 preview.
We didn't have MCP, but that wasn't a big deal because the models were mostly pretty weak at tool calling anyway.
The DeepSeek moment hadn't happened yet - the best available open weights models were from Mistral and Llama and were nowhere close to the frontier hosted models.
The LLM landscape feels radically different to me now compared to October last year.
In October we had Aider, which is more useful to me then Claude Code, as it allows more targeted changes and faster switching between models, modes and into my personal typing.
Not just Claude Code, but all these tools are just better in generating more slop, which is generating more effort in your codebase in the future. Making it less agile, harder to maintain and harder to extend without breaking.
I still haven’t found a useful usage of MCP for me, if i want tool calling I get a structured response by the AI and then do a normal API call. I don’t need nor want the AI to have access to all these calls it’s just too unreliable.
I’m really just sharing my personal preference as I also prefer a pedal bin over an electric one as there is delay in the later and you have the exchange batteries, whilst the first just always works.
The main issue with AI to me is reliability and all that happens is we give it more and more power. This might work out or stall us.
For me personally I don’t feel much improvement and I cant share the hype anymore, whilst I’m still more then grateful for the opportunity to live at this time and have AI teach me decent skills in a wide range of topics and accelerate my learning curve.
Honestly no offense, but for me nothing really changed in the last 12 months. It’s not one particular mistake by a company but everything is just so overhyped with little substance.
Skills to me is basically providing a read-only md file with guidelines. Which can be useful but somehow I don’t use it as maintaining my guidelines is more work then just writing a better prompt.
I’m not sure anymore if all the ai slop and stuff we create is beneficial anymore for us or it’s just creating a low quality problem in the future