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> How many years before the industry will get to the point

When/if the underlying model gets good enough to support that pattern. As an extreme example, you aren't ever going to make even a basic agent with GPT-3 as the base model, the juice isn't worth the squeeze.

Models have gotten way better and I'm now convinced (new data -> new opinion) that they are a major win for coding, but they still need a lot, a lot of handholding, left to their own devices they just make a mess.

The underlying capabilities of the model are the entire ballgame, the "use patterns" aren't exactly rocket science.