r/Singularity AI predictions mostly hold up

The thread reads less like hype in hindsight and more like an early map of where AI actually landed.

• –Website generation moved from novelty to a real workflow, with one-shot app and site builders good enough for portfolios, dashboards, and internal tools.
• –Coding agents were the biggest surprise; the 2024 thread understated how quickly Cursor-style workflows would become useful for multi-file tasks and junior-dev work.
• –The reliability story mattered as much as the capability story, because lower hallucinations changed day-to-day usefulness more than raw benchmark wins.
• –The GPT-5 timing prediction aged badly, but the broader bet on a reasoning pivot was directionally right.
• –The lesson for builders is to watch agent loops, verification, and tool use, not just the next model launch.