As AI outsider, can you speak to how you draw the line here? Like doesn't the agential blahblah make upgrades/maintenance trivial?
When do you get it to make you the thing versus choosing to vendor something out like back in the day?
When do you get it to make you the thing versus choosing to vendor something out like back in the day?
To your question: it’s the difference between one person and an agent working on something vs an experienced dev and the entire community.
Time and tokens too of course.
And I see that tonight pi has had their regular devs ship (https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/tags) new releases with modified thinking levels for GPT-5.6 while roboomp is discussing this back and forth with some contributors in oh-my-pi's repo.