Maybe I’ve reached a unique and terrifying level of terminally online goblinhood, but I wonder if part of the issue is also that people are already using basically 100% of the apps they care to use. Like, I don’t think there’s much in terms of entertainment, productivity, social engagement, or whatever that can be replaced or augmented by new apps, so depending on how we’re measuring total usage we shouldn’t expect to see dramatic increases just because there are more apps. This doesn’t change the fact that vibe coding isn’t actually making things people want to use, and in fact I would say that this dramatically increases the chance that any slopware that does do something legitimately useful is going to quickly find itself competing with more well-designed and well-constructed versions of itself that was created by an actual mind.