AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up

Re:AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours t... by foobarqux on Monday September 21, 2026 @10:55PM (#49796302)

> 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.

App store revenue actually decreased! That suggests that the apps are largely not useful, unless you make the implausible assumption that nearly none of them are charging money.

https://www.ft.com/content/e5533f32-e4c2-4ce1-9d2e-a831e9654...

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Re:AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours t... by pinkgolem on Monday September 21, 2026 @11:31PM (#49796512)

I mean in a market where production cost goes down & competition increases while demand stays the same... That's exactly what I would expect.

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Re:AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours t... by setr on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @01:34AM (#49797151)

If they were actually useful though, demand shouldn’t stay the same — more niches should be getting filled. If they’re just clones of each other, then yes

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Re:AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours t... by pinkgolem on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @04:15AM (#49798048)

i mean, i had multiple gaps filled in the last few month for things i was longing for.. but all for free.

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Re:AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours t... by chris_bell on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @08:10AM (#49799964)

Same. I've stopped paying for things that aren't quite what I want and built things exactly how I want for free.

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