> If the goal is to increase the rate of software production, there isn't much evidence that AI has moved the needle.

There is only one thing that triggers growth and it is demand. When there's a will, there's a way. But if there's no additional will, new ways won't bring any growth.

Basically AI will show up on the first future spike of demand for software but not before.

My software output increased by manyfold. But none of the software AI wrote for me shows up on the internet. Those are all internal tools, often one off, written for specific task, then discarded.

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rsynnott a day ago | parent [-]

I don’t think I buy that; in particular, most steam games are not demand driven. They’re mostly created by hobbyists, who do not, and do not expect to, make much money on them.

	▲	scotty79 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Steam is not super friendly towards AI and who knows what are motivations of those hobbyists. Maybe using AI doesn't sit with majority of them well. I don't think you are gonna see the uptick in published software. At least not until there's money to be made from the additional demand. What you are gonna see instead is drop in sales of published software (probably not games) as people build custom software with AI agents for their personal needs and use instead buying of the shelve products (and SaaS).