[apothegm]

When most apps are bitty throwaways and it takes an hour and $5 worth of tokens to throw up a marketing site, it becomes increasingly difficult to guess which new apps are worth using, which are giant security holes in the making due to blind vibe-coding, and which are malicious.

Sure, there were always sketchy fly by night app developers. But there used to be less fragmentation, such that it was easier for a worthwhile app to gain mindshare and you could actually learn what other people thought of it.

If it costs a day and $20 to vibe code a replacement (or a eeek and $100 in a corporate environment), I’d rather do that than risk the cost and inconvenience of installing something that will wipe my data or get me pwned.