No it wasn't. You said the claims were only based on quantity. I'm saying the opposite. I deliver the same quantity, with higher quality.

> Can we cash that check or is it gonna trade heavily discounted like all grand claims on AI since all software all around us together with the economy and the Earth's life supporting systems keep degrading every year?

I'm not sure what evidence I could offer you that would ever convince you. We've had strong coding models for less than a year, and you've already appear to have closed your mind about them and wrapped them up into your depression.

I mostly work on UI (for an internal, science-focused app) and it used be that features would take a sprint or two to grind out, and would always be an MVP to meet just the most essential user requirements, because that's all we could afford, time-wise, to do. And if I figured out while implementing there could be a nicer UI approach to something, it was often too late to change the approach.

Now, I can get to that MVP in under a day. And I can experiment with ten radically different approaches, or change my mind about something significant at any stage in the implementation. I can afford to add refinements and user-pleasing extras that I could never have done before. I'm not delivering features at 10x the speed. There's a limit to the amount of code I can (and should) be submitting for review. But the features I'm building are _better_, and the effort is less. I'm not wasting mental bandwidth typing out a dozen React components full of the same-old state management, form processing code, etc. I'm not trawling through charting library docs, looking for the precise combination of settings to make my chart's x-axis ticks labels rotate 45 degrees. My mental energy is focussed on figuring out what solution is actually _right_, not the minutiae of how to persuade the computer to do it.

Evidence: Look at the most recent article on this blog: https://julienreszka.com/blog/difficult-conversations-don-t-...

"Memory is reconstructive. When someone recalls events differently, it feels like gaslighting. It usually isn't. Document first, then negotiate."

Bleugh

Maybe AI is different. Certainly, the level scale of investment is on a different order of magnitude. But I'm wary of believing anything about the financial impossibility of AI being sustainable when I've seen such similarly confident arguments proved wrong in the past.

Do it, now. What comes up?

Yes, once IT gets professionalised, they should switch to a better provider. But the registration will likely be for multiple years, with auto-renewal, and when nothing has gone wrong, theoretical problems take a backseat to live ones.