Like many others I started feeling it had legs during the past few months. Tools and models reached some level where it suddenly started living up to some of the hype.

I'm still learning how to make the most of it but my current state is one of total amazement. I can't believe how well this works now.

One game-changer has been custom agents and agent orchestration, where you let agents kick off other agents and each one is customized and keeps a memory log. This lets me make several 1000 loc features in large existing codebases without reaching context limits, and with documentation that lets me review the work with some confidence.

I have delivered several features in large legacy codebases that were implemented while I attended meetings. Agents have created greenfield dashboards, admin consoles and such from scratch that would have taken me days to do myself, during daily standups. If it turned out bad, I tweaked the request and made another attempt over lunch. Several useful tools have been made that save me hours per week but I never took the time to make myself.

For now, I love it. I do feel a bit of "mourning the craft" but love seeing things be realized in hours instead of days or weeks.