I guess we draw a different line then. This year has been full of a lot of great releases so far. Most normal people didn't use Agents before January. A lot of old scaffolding isn't needed because the models are smarter. Fable. It does not at all feel slower than previous years.

HN commenters have been saying that LLMs plateaued ever since the first ChatGPT release. The models that were current when these comments were made look quaint now.

6 months ago:

> LLMs are amazing, but they have reached a plateau.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46109534

1 year ago:

> generative AI has languished in the same place, even in my kindest estimations, for several months, though it's really been years.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43085885

2 years ago:

> 2024 has seen nothing substantially good and the only notesworthy thing is this article finally hitting into the public consciousness that we are past of the AI peak and beyond the plateau and freefalling has already begun.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42125888

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I think the present just always feels slow.