I don’t think this is true actually. There was a huge shift of llm coding ability with the release of sonnet 2.5. That was a real shift in how people started using LMS for coding. Before that it was more of a novelty not something people used a lot for real work. As someone who is not a software engineer, as of about November 2024, I “write” hundreds of lines of code a day for meaningful work to get done.