I'm very optimistic here as well. And it's also worth noting that tooling is improving along with the models. I really think we have to treat models and tools as a package. The models is your engine, but you need a chassis to run it.

I find what makes frontier models actually work well isn't just the capability of the model, but how well the harness is tuned to its expectations. I wrote a about this in a bit more detail here. https://yogthos.net/posts/2026-06-08-dirge-code.html