Thanks for replying, and sorry for implying the wrong state of things.
I think that writing software for an employer has always kind of sucked. There's never enough time to improve things to the state they should be and you're always one weird product feature from having to completely mess up your nice abstraction.
I do feel like writing hobby software is in a great state now though. I can sit down for 30 minutes and now with Cursor/LLM assistance get a lot of code written. I'm actually kind of excited to see what new open source projects will exist in a few years with the aid of the new tools.
I think that writing software for an employer has always kind of sucked. There's never enough time to improve things to the state they should be and you're always one weird product feature from having to completely mess up your nice abstraction.
I do feel like writing hobby software is in a great state now though. I can sit down for 30 minutes and now with Cursor/LLM assistance get a lot of code written. I'm actually kind of excited to see what new open source projects will exist in a few years with the aid of the new tools.