It's not a reach to suggest that if you've used software written in the past 2-3 years, you're enjoying cool stuff.

Moreover, all of the tools that the people who build software use are also cool stuff.

It's also not just code and software that is benefitting from these new tools. Use of LLMs in engineering tasks is blowing up right now.

I'm not sure that extrapolating the last 2 to 3 years as a sign of things to come is as enticing an argument as you seem to think it is . If you exclude AI for ai's sake, the feature lists of the last 2 years have been incredibly anemic. If you include AI companies bootstrapping themselves with AI, the cash flow has been a nice change but I can't say it's felt fully baked, or flooded with stable software and well-crafted workflows.

I'm really not trying to be a hater but when people tell me that we're already in the AI Nirvana it gives me pause.