This year, AI continued looming large in the software world. But more than before, people are wrestling with both its amazing capabilities and its striking shortcomings. New research has found that AI agents are doubling the length of task they can do every seven months—an astounding rate of exponential growth. But the quality of their work still suffers, clocking in at about a 50 percent success rate on the hardest tasks. Chatbots are assisting coders and even coding autonomously, but this may not…
