With the stories of immense productivity gains for the last ~6 months due to adoption of tools utilizing language models, I’m curious to know if you have anecdotes or evidence of a more rapid pace of improvement to the software you use.
Ask HN: Have you seen notable improvements in the products you use?
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Re: Ask HN: Have you seen notable improvements in the products you use?
#2No. Vim gets gradually better, but no sudden jumps. pacman has gotten faster subjectively, that might be parallel downloads.
On android, it seems like autocorrect has gotten more aggressive and a little stupider. Chrome is doing dumber things.
Re: Ask HN: Have you seen notable improvements in the products you use?
#3No, I don't feel like there are notable improvements because certain updates can be word but it's slowly gets a little better but I wouldn't so A remarkable one
Re: Ask HN: Have you seen notable improvements in the products you use?
#4I haven't noticed any change on this front.
Re: Ask HN: Have you seen notable improvements in the products you use?
#5Local agentic coding is literally improving by the day lately. Practically everything that's happened has happened in the last like 6 months.
Re: Ask HN: Have you seen notable improvements in the products you use?
#6Siggraph 2025 is in a few days, and I can see a few emerging technologies cross the finish line to be production software.
https://s2025.conference-schedule.org
https://www.realtimerendering.com/kesen/sig2025.html
However, this isn't new, this happens every year..