if AI could really one-shot important, interesting apps, shouldn’t we be seeing them everywhere? where’s the surge of new apps that are so trivial to make? who’s hiding all this incredible innovation that can be so easily generated?

If AI could really accelerate or even take over the majority of work on an established codebase, we should be seeing a revolution in FOSS libraries and ecosystems. The gap has been noted many times, but so far all anyone's been able to dig up are one-off, laboriously-tended-to pull requests. No libraries or other projects with any actual downstream users.

I've made another comment in this thread about a nice tool I one-shotted. The reason I don't publish anything now is because in the UK at least, companies are not behaving will with relation to IP: many contracts specify that anything you work on that can be expected of you in the course of your duties belongs to the company, and tribunals have upheld this.

There's also a bit of a stigma about vibe coding: career wise, personally I worry that sharing some of this work will diminish how people view me as an engineer. Who'd take the risk if there might be a naysayer on some future interview panel who will see CLAUDE.md in a repo of yours and assume you're incompetent or feckless?

Plus, worries about code: being an author gives you a much higher level of control than being an author-reviewer. To err as a writer is human, to err as a reader has bigger consequences.