> OpenClaw is a good example of a completely new project written using coding agents that made a significant impression on the world and would not have been built without them.

Nobody is denying that OpenClaw is popular, and nobody (in this thread, at least) is denying that AI rapidly speeds up the ability to make an initial release or prototype for greenfield projects. But the comment that spawned this discussion was:

> we still have no companies compressing 10 years into 1 year thus exploding past all the incumbents who don't "get it".

The issue is that you're extrapolating OpenClaw, which upon release was a month of pre-AI development work compressed into a few days, to cover the "10 years into 1 year" scenario. However, this isn't appropriate because software development is non-linear. As anyone who has worked on a greenfield project pre-AI should know, those first weeks and months have much faster development cycles. There's no tech debt to worry about; there's no urgent bug tickets or feature requests from customers; there's no thinking about whether it's okay to ship a breaking change.