If AI Makes Us Faster, Why Aren't the Apps We Use Getting Better?

This week a Jonathan Blow video titled "If AI solved coding, why is my software still the same?" landed on the Hacker News front page and pulled more than 150 comments. The question stuck with me because I don't have a good answer. If AI really makes developers several times faster, I'd expect to notice it as a user by now. Fewer bugs. Faster apps. Features I've wanted for years finally showing up. But the apps on my phone feel about the same as they did two years ago. Some feel worse. A few possible explanations I keep going back and forth on: Maybe we aren't actually faster. METR ran a rando
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