what crazy progress? how much do you spend on tokens every month to witness the crazy progress that I'm not seeing? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. The progress is linear at best

Large parts of my coding are now done by Claude/Cursor. I give it high level tasks and it just does it. It is honestly incredible, and if I would have see this 2 years ago I wouldn't have believed it.

That started long before ChatGPT though, so you need to set an earlier date then. ChatGPT came about 3 years after GPT-3, the coding assistants came much earlier than ChatGPT.

But most of the coding assistants were glorified autocomplete. What agentic IDEs/aider/etc. can now do is definitely new.

What kind of coding do you do? How much of it is formulaic?

Web app with a VueJS, Typescript frontend and a Rust backend, some Postgres functions and some reasonably complicated algorithms for parsing git history.