That's just volume though. I also know, and have no trouble believing, that github is going down partly due to the weight of all the vibecoded pushes. But that does not necessarily translate to people's needs and wants being covered, for all we know iOS just has a plague of unused POCs.

Do you have actual productive examples? As in, products with a real userbase that couldn't exist or be scaled pre-AI? Genuinely asking, I might have missed some large hits. The closest I can remember was bun rewrite kerfuffle, which seemed more a marketing action than anything.

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apf6 an hour ago | parent [-]

> That's just volume though

If we sorted through all those new apps and ignored all the crap, I'm pretty sure we would find an overall increase in actually useful apps. I just shipped a new app myself, and I think it's useful, and I wouldn't have finished mine without AI assistance.

> products with a real userbase that couldn't exist or be scaled pre-AI?

Coding hasn't been the bottleneck for product creation for a while. So I don't think there are going to be many examples that fit that exact criteria. Any app idea was 'possible' before, it just took more developer hours to do it. So now teams are doing more things that were weren't worth the effort before, but are a lot more feasible with AI assistance.

	▲	dieselgate an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> I'm pretty sure we would find an overall increase in actually useful apps I think you're probably right but at what point does it become diminishing returns? I have observed the app market to be overly saturated for years and rarely download something other than a mobile-banking update.
	▲	shimman an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		What you're saying wouldn't be hard to prove, you're acting as if we aren't aware of usage statistics. We can even tell if MAU (monthly active users) are increasing or not for particular apps. So we are aware of them and what do they actually say?