> How is it that a handful of companies are taking off like a spaceship, and the rest, including Google, are mired in inaction?

All these companies are "taking off like a spaceship", so... where is all the (quality, non-slop) space traffic?

I use LLMs. I believe LLMs (especially combined with agentic coding) increase coding productivity and in the right hands can produce non-slop, but by and large on a macro level everything still feels pretty much the same industry wide as it did last year, and five years ago and ten years ago.