A Year in the Review

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A Year in the Review

What One Non-Developer Shipped in Twelve Months, and Why That Sentence No Longer Sounds Strange

Dr. Tali Režun

Serial Entrepreneur · Vice Dean of Frontier Technologies, COTRUGLI Business School

Abstract.  This is a year-in-review, written as a research note and told as a story. The headline figure is 1,278 GitHub contributions in twelve months. The real subject is productivity: what a single founder can now build alone with AI coding agents, measured against three decades of doing the same work with hired and partnered development teams. I argue that the most under-reported event of the current cycle is not any single model release. It is the democratisation of software building. The bottleneck has moved from code to context and vision, and that shift is good news for every founder who has ever waited six months and a payroll for an MVP that arrived wrong.

  augment code     claude code     codex     coding agents     LLM