Most of Your AI Stack Is a Year Old

Every few days another "here's my May 2026 AI coding workflow" post lands on my feed. They're usually polished. They're usually proud of a two- or three-tool stack. And they almost always paper over how much of the showcased workflow has been available for a year, in one tool, on a cheaper subscription. This isn't an attack on the people writing those posts. I've done versions of it myself. The workflow-as-content-format is useful: it surfaces patterns, lets people copy what's working.