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Respectfully, was this comment AI generated? It has all the signs.

And scaffolding does matter a lot, but mostly because the models just got a lot better and the corresponding scaffolding for long running tasks hasn't really caught up yet.

[nemooperans]

Ha, fair call. I use Claude a lot and it's definitely rubbed off on how I write and even think (which is something to explore in itself sometime). The scaffolding point is from building though, not prompting. Been doing AI-integrated dev for about a year and the gap between "better model" and "actually useful in production" is almost entirely the surrounding architecture. You're right the infrastructure hasn't caught up yet, that's kind of the whole problem right now. Most teams are building fancier autocomplete when the real problems are things like persistent memory and letting learned patterns earn trust over time.