Ah, Simon with another load of bullshit! Your own blog articles contradict your comment. But sure, keep moving the goalpost for your overlords Anthropic and OpenAI.
Also in July 2025 I was successfully using one of the earliest async cloud environments - Codex Cloud - to scrape websites.
By October 2025 the most recent Claude could one-shot a simple Datasette plugin.
What changed in November 2025 was that the level of hand-holding needed to get good results dropped to the point that it was no longer credible to deny their utility.
> Can't wait for your Summer 2027 comment where you'll claim that coding agents really only became usable in November 2026.
Oh! I think I see what happened here. I said this:
> coding agents (Claude Code, OpenAI Codex) only started working really well in late November
"Working really well" and "only became usable" are not the same thing.
Your detractors don’t care about the facts Simon, as you’re probably well aware. They’re afraid of LLMs and need to deny that they can do anything well or have any potential to take their jobs.
In their world AI never has an impact on jobs, just like AI can never be an equivalent to a human, and the goalposts move every time a goal is scored.