[toddmorey]

I worry that almost all the 2025 startups I've seen are AI app builders. Where are the novel new applications? I get that codegen is currently one area where AI does well, but it also feels like we're struggling with other use cases.

[spaceman_2020]

I’ve spent an enormous amount of time with practically every AI model out there, from coding to image-gen to video-gen

The tech is still simply too hard to use effectively for the vast majority of lay people, especially for anything beyond a cool product demo

Some of it is due to quality of the models, some of it due t quality of the tooling

Prompt engineering is still a skill and that’s beyond what a casual user can figure out

[mccoyb]

My optimism says the good new stuff is coming slowly because people who care about their craft and taking things slowly aren’t in any rush to get to market.