> Consider: what does computing look like in a world where many (maybe most) applications have an audience of just 1-2 people? How is software distributed? What does it run on?

The same. The slop apps remain just that. They may do something useful for you, but that's it. A bit like a branch in a repository.

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tptacek 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Have you thought carefully about this? What does it mean to call a piece of software that solves a real problem you have in your life "slop"?

	▲	itgoon 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's the same thing as looking down your nose at people who use Excel as a database because it's not a "real" database. Yes, I'm sure we all have horror stories about spreadsheets that got out of hand, but that ignores the thousands (or more) spreadsheets that are silently productive everyday.