I would say “mild” rather than “astronomical” improvement as far as end-user applications are concerned, at least for the things I use every day. Copilot-style autocomplete in VS Code isn’t much better and the answers to my TypeScript questions on OpenAI (and now Claude) have only mildly improved.
Perhaps I’ve missed out. Is your experience different? What are you doing now that you weren’t doing before?
I think the answer is they jumped all in and they are fully incorporating it into their workflow. If you’re not, like I am, you have a different experience and that is obvious of course. But objectively you probably are right about mild improvements as I feel the same. But I can’t speak as far as the all in experience. I may be missing overall but usually am set in my ways until something convinces me to reset my ways. LLMs aren’t making the dent though I have to admit I use it at least once a week and am happy with that use alone.
Perhaps I’ve missed out. Is your experience different? What are you doing now that you weren’t doing before?