I guess a nice advantage of backwardness here is that economic opportunities exist for those who can solve pain points in the use of existing intel. Older models often do almost as well at agentic tasks in reality, can probably go further.

Still, AGI should remove a lot of this making it redundant, and it will then be more about the intel than the tooling. But an opportunity exists now. We may not have widespread AGI until 8 - 10 years later, so plenty of money to be made in the meantime.