I've been saying "if AI is making you so productive then where is all this great new software" and I guess the answer is the software is out there it's just not great, it's terrible, and nobody is using it

[brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net]

@alice @eniko *me looking at the state of things* "this is the perfect time for me to pivot to freelance app development" :headdesk:

[alice@mk.nyaa.place]

@brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place it's also fun when I've been working on a thing for close to 3 years now, and it's relatively close to a release, but also it's now and do i even want to release it at this period of time vs waiting until the literal shitstorm clears up

[brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net]

@alice @eniko this is fine

[srazkvt@tech.lgbt]

@alice @eniko that reminds me of that guy who said "why flathub cares what devs use to make their apps" but i only realised now that it's pretty normal actually to limit wastes of ressources on apps nobody wants to use

[ozzelot@mstdn.social]

@toerror
I found a bank that lets me exist without an app... for now

(Sure, SMS 2FA is, erm, not amazing, but is trusting a years-out-of-date android version that much more secure?)
@mmby @aeva @eniko

[jargoggles@kolektiva.social]

@dome @eniko
If you're not a programmer, how on earth do you know if it's more secure?

"I'm not a civil engineer, but I used AI to make this bridge sturdier."

[scavello@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@eniko Even if it is great, how are people supposed to find among all the trash? Its made an already existing problem worse

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

this post has made all the AI users Big Mad

[matildalove@wetdry.world]

@eniko keep up the good work!

[lambdacalculus@masto.hackers.town]

@eniko Well done!

[zwol@masto.hackers.town]

@eniko I seriously wonder how many of those are in aid of some kind of scam.

[401matthall@mastodon.xyz]

@eniko

"I was able to rapidly go from prototype to finished product using Agentic AI!"

...

"Steve, nobody is using your finished product."

...

"Well, it was a horrible idea that nobody wanted to build. So... Yeah.'

...

[nini@oldbytes.space]

@scavello @eniko "Flooding the zone with shit" applies to everything.

[scavello@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@nini @eniko I mean, pretty much every dev I see on GDP complains about having to market their game so people can find it

[ozzelot@mstdn.social]

@eniko
A victory, then.

[jaye@theforkiverse.com]

@eniko @alice the flood of junk apps is so frustrating on both maintainers trying to organize a collection and the people trying to find genuinely useful apps.

[petealexharris@mastodon.scot]

@eniko
This looks exactly like how there are a vastly increased number of ebooks available on Amazon.

[0x0961h@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@dome @jargoggles @eniko Your problem is that it's "good enough" in your non-programmer eyes. For now.

And then you'll find yourself wondering why it 100%s your GPU in idle.

And then starts the "burning through tokens trying to add more features or fix old stuff that suddenly was overwritten during ai hiccup" dance.

[0x0961h@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@dome @jargoggles @eniko (Non-ethical) problem with vibe code is that while you might find ai useful for _producing_ code, it's not useful for _supporting_ it.

Just like ai "artist" can't fix slop because they have no idea how light works, how clothes works, and fixing ai "art" with ai just makes a new image leaving nothing from the old iteration.

[0x0961h@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@dome @jargoggles @eniko Why do you think code slop is any different from art slop? It's the same LLM technology under all this crap about productivity no one asked for.