A "generation" is roughly 5 years on front end in my experience. Measured by say, the time when people make fun of jQuery when they can use vanilla JS to the po

A "generation" is roughly 5 years on front end in my experience. Measured by say, the time when people make fun of jQuery when they can use vanilla JS to the point where people make fun on jQuery as an 'outdated' stack. Mobile is shorter, because it's highly centralized around Apple and Google who can declare something obsolete. It's not simply opinion; I literally got an email saying that I had to meet the target API level requirements by 31 Aug for an app that was at the latest one less than a year ago. A 'generation' in AI is 1-2 years now - GPT-4o was state of the art in May 2024, now deprecated. I can't tell if the models being up to date make other stacks faster or slower.