[Morromist]

I hear this every day, and I'm sure its true sometimes, but where is the tsunami of amazing software LLM users are producing? Where are the games that make the old games look like things from a bygone era? Where are the updates to the software that I currently use that greatly increase it capabilities? I have seen none of this.

I get that it takes a long time to make software, but people were making big promises a year ago and I think its time to start expecting some results.

[pickettd]

Reddit and GitHub are littered with people launching new projects and appear to be way more feature-rich than new tool/app launches from previous years. I think it is a lot harder to get noticed with a new tool/app new because of this increase in volume of launches.

Also weekend hackathon events have completely/drastically changed as an experience in the last 2-3 years (expectations and also feature-set/polish of working code by the end of the weekend).

And as another example, you see people producing CUDA kernels and MLX ports as an individual (with AI) way more these days (compared to 1-2 years ago), like this: https://huggingface.co/blog/custom-cuda-kernels-agent-skills

[sarchertech]

I have no way of verifying any of those. Something I can easily verify, new games launched on steam.

January numbers are out and there were fewer games launched this January than last.

[kelipso]

Specifically about custom CUDA kernels, I’ve implemented them with AI that significantly sped up the code in this project I worked on. Didn’t know how to code these kernels at all, but I implemented and tested a couple of variations and got it running fast in just two days. Basically impossible for me before AI coding (well not impossible but it would have taken me many weeks, so I wouldn’t have tried it).

[Bombthecat]

Or just don't publish them, because they don't want to deal with uses.

I wrote a python DHCP server which connects with proxmox server to hand out stable IPs as long as the VM / container exists in proxmox.

Not via MAC but basically via VM ID ( or name)

[AnthonyMouse]

The one thing AI is consistently better at than humans is shipping quickly. It will give you as much slop as you want right away, and if you push on it for a short period of time it will compile and if you run it a program will appear that has a button for each of the requested features.

Then you start asking questions like, does the button for each of the features actually do the thing? Are there any race conditions? Are there inputs that cause it to segfault or deadlock? Are the libraries it uses being maintained by anyone or are they full of security vulnerabilities? Is the code itself full of security vulnerabilities? What happens if you have more than 100 users at once? If the user sets some preferences, does it actually save them somewhere, and then load them back properly on the next run? If the preferences are sensitive, where is it saving them and who has access to it?

It's way easier to get code that runs than code that works.

Or to put it another way, AI is pretty good at writing the first 90% of the code:

    "The first 90 percent of the code accounts for the first 90 percent of the development time. The remaining 10 percent of the code accounts for the other 90 percent of the development time." — Tom Cargill, Bell Labs

[copperx]

Nowadays there are DOZENS of apps being launched solving the same problem.

Have you ever looked for, say, WisprFlow alternatives? I had to compare like 10 extremely similar solutions. Apps have no moat nowadays.

That's happening all over the place.

[sarchertech]

Look somewhere outside of the AI hype space. You’re seeing more AI competitors because it’s easy to build on top of someone’s existing model or API and everyone is trying to cash in. You saw the same thing with new crypto currency.

[Bombthecat]

Just check foundry vtt and it's modules. The amount of modules released exploded since AI.

[sarchertech]

That’s an incredibly niche area. From their website it looks like there are 4k modules available. Is there a way to see historical data. Also is number of users available, so that you can rule out popularity growth?