What is hyperbole? We are collectively experiencing a software intelligence explosion (people are shipping good software at prolific rates now due to Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.2-Codex-xhigh). With Scry, you can run arbitrary SELECT SQL statements over a large corpus and have an easier time composing embedding vectors in whatever mathematical ways you want, than any other tool I've seen.
> shipping good software at prolific rates
I think your definition of good needs to be rethought
“The primary job of software engineers is to make software suck less.” - a university professor i had, 20 years ago.
Let’s not romanticize the past because it’s easier to ship (probably still buggy) code today.
its not though. the primary job of software engineers is to ship a product that produces income for their employer.
Does this definition work for SWEs who develop open source projects?