Where is all the new, good software?

Here's a question we see, especially from AI skeptics: if AI coding is so great, shouldn't we be seeing more new, good software by now? Here are some answers. As usual in this style of post, these are conjectural, candidate answers, and I would give some of them little weight. We are in fact seeing software improvement, in the form of fewer bugs and better performance. We are in fact seeing software improvement, in the form of more and better features in existing products. We are in fact seeing software improvement, but the "we" is very limited. Most people don't adopt new software very often, so it's not surprising that they aren't finding new great software now. Many businesses' software-development processes have subsystems, especially political subsystems, that have not been accelerated with AI. (Imagine the process of getting senior engineers and product managers to sign off on a development plan. The engineers and PMs could use AI to do this better and faster, but perhaps they…