you can't deny how useful they are!!

[oatmeal@kolektiva.social]

@jplebreton I didn’t read yet but wonder if there’s a carbon footprint cost estimate to this flood of garbage (also I’d like to see how many exist only for demanding a monthly subscription).

[dotjayne@tech.lgbt]

@morj_lecteur @jplebreton imo, it only implies that LLMs boost programming output of garbage apps. The corresponding decrease in apps with significant usage could indicate users bouncing around from app to app, not finding anything better to settle on, but still displaced from long-time favorite apps as the whole software ecosystem loses stability to LLM cruft

[bri7@social.treehouse.systems]

@jplebreton why buy the milk when the cow is free (for now)

[guigsy@mstdn.social]

@IngloGamesDev @jplebreton it does indicate that app engagement is getting lower. So AI can't be the all magical wonder tool that it's hyped to be, or it'd offset this downward trend. AI is at best... Meh.

[patrick_h_lauke@mastodon.social]

@morj_lecteur @jplebreton the same way a laxative boosts digestive productivity

[dichotomiker@dresden.network]

@jplebreton Log scale, please!

[hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com]

@dichotomiker It kind of already is since it's a graph of rates.

[saxnot@chaos.social]

@jplebreton @IngloGamesDev perhaps the app store checks have become more leniant
that would be an easy way to get these results

[pgiulan@federate.social]

@jplebreton

https://federate.social/@pgiulan/116709689035474167

[cassolotl@eldritch.cafe]

@bri7 @oatmeal @jplebreton "Individual personal carbon footprint" is oil company propaganda - and that dismissal doesn't really apply here.

[sebbernery@mamot.fr]

@jplebreton When I try to look project that claims to earn real money on vibe coding reddits, it's always shitty tools to help people to vibe code and sell an app / SAAS in a way or another.

I think it's really funny those are models for vibe coders thinking they are getting rich.

[dichotomiker@dresden.network]

@hypolite Good point. But the count of apps with significant usage (across all apps) is a different scale.

[hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com]

@dichotomiker Good catch as well!

[dichotomiker@dresden.network]

@hypolite I let Claude make a redo. (what happened 2024?)

[hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com]

@dichotomiker And now that it went through AI it's meaningless.

[dichotomiker@dresden.network]

@hypolite sorry, won't do that again (probably)

[jplebreton@mastodon.social]

@wendyhk nobody cares how you justify it to yourself, you're still making the world worse in multiple ways. go away.

[su_liam@mas.to]

@jplebreton Look at the amount of schlock floating around even when releases and usage were mid and reviews were at a peak. Now look at the Wall-E piles of garbage represented by current stats. Good luck finding the diamonds in that chaff, and even if you find one, will it be made by AI? I doubt it.

[su_liam@mas.to]

@tnorinder @jplebreton Even if they do create a superhuman intelligence at some point, do we really want a cheap temu superman raised in a Vought lab by people like Peter Thiel?

[wtrmt@mastodon.social]

@jplebreton can you put the link to this article, please? I would like to read it.