Why haven't we seen an explosion of new start-ups, products or features? Why do we still see hundreds of bug tickets on every issue tracking page? Have you noticed anything different on any changelog?
I invite tptacek, or any other chatbot enthusiast around, to publish project metrics and show some actual numbers.
You're posting this question on a forum hosted by YC. Here's a story from March 2024: "YC’s latest W24 batch includes 240 companies. A significant portion of the companies have some AI component, with 63% tagged as “Artificial Intelligence” — a notable increase from 51% in the preceding S23 batch and 29% before that.". https://jamesin.substack.com/p/analysis-of-ycs-latest-w24-ba...
I've not seen the same analysis for more recent batches.
1. A huge part of the demographic group visiting HN is biased in favor of AI given the sort of startups YN decides to fund.
2. The large amount of start-ups funded by HN that are related to AI should answer your question.
I am slightly leaning towards the first one combined with a little bit of the latter one. A lot of people working in startups will be used to building up a structure from scratch where incorporating the latest "thing" is not that big of a deal. It also means they rarely see the long term impact of the code they write.
They have a huge blind spot for the reality of existing code bases and company structures where introducing these tools isn't as easy and code needs to be maintained for much longer.