The adoption gap
I was skeptical during GPT-3.5 and GPT-4. Chat in a sidebar was autocomplete with extra steps — useful for a paragraph here, not for the actual work of building software. What arrived a year later was a different primitive: agentic coding loops, where the model drives a small set of tools instead of just producing text. Almost everything on this blog was built with an agent next to me, and the honest read is that it widens the developer-skill gap before it narrows.

