SWE is past the elbow of the exponential kickoff. I watched it happen in real time. Other fields are next.

Two years ago I was writing every line of code. A year ago I was prompting and reviewing. Six months ago I was running multi-turn loops manually — plan, implement, verify, fix, repeat. Last week I ran 63 automated steps on a complex codebase and walked away. Came back to 20,000 lines of working code