As a developer, our executives and stakeholders have really losed focus. It seems like 10-20 years ago we were being asked to solve tightly scoped problems. Now we get massive sprawling edicts, tons of how I want it, and the result is a very unpolished product. No one seems to care about basics or details anymore. This predates our current AI mess and the AI boom has only made things worse.

This is exactly what the mainline frontier labs are trying to do.

Based on the current valuations of their companies. They will likely remain 0.1%ers, but it will still hurt.

Microsoft’s copilot branding is all over the place. Copilot CLI and GitHub copilot (IDE plugin) both let you choose which model you want to use.