[mexicocitinluez]

> have we seen great new products or improvements in the products we use over the past 12,24,36 months

This sentiment drives me nuts.

I'm on a handful of software dev subreddits and the amount of new products popping up has tripled since these tools became available.

I also don't understand how you'd expect to measure this. Is there some single list of all software that's been released that annotates whether AI was used? Do you have some feed of every project that hits GitHub that you're meticulously tracking? The idea that you personally should have seen these improvements or they didn't happen is wild to me.

I work in healthcare. Where the # of products has skyrocketed due to these tools. Some are bad, some are good. But to say that nothing has come out of it is just objectively not true.

[pants2]

There's a staggering amount of new, basic software which often goes unmaintained quickly because no discipline was needed to build it. But I don't think we're seeing, for example, Adobe releasing new creative suite tools faster than before. This isn't something I can quite quantify, though.

[Henchman21]

It feels like you’re saying “SNR changed; now there’s tons of noise”?

[mexicocitinluez]

What industry are you in and what's your role? There are new EMR's popping up overnight in healthcare. And that's my point. There's no way a person can say that it's not happening because they personally aren't seeing it. Thinking in terms of "Well why aren't the big companies building software quicker" answers it's own questions. It wasn't the coding that was making it slow.

[bluefirebrand]

> There are new EMR's popping up overnight in healthcare

That's probably the last place I want AI generated bullshit to be popping up overnight

[twister2920]

> I'm on a handful of software dev subreddits and the amount of new products popping up has tripled since these tools became available.

> I also don't understand how you'd expect to measure this

I'm confused, are we accepting anecdata or no?

[mexicocitinluez]

You can't prove a negative like that. So whether it's anecdotal or not is irrelevant.

[flyinglizard]

Products, yes, because the barrier to making a product had fallen off a cliff (both in developing the software and the marketing/sales fluff around it). But are those products converting to business results? Are those quality products someone will pay for?

In other words, is anyone using these products or is that becoming like the spammy App Stores with tons of low effort stuff?

[mexicocitinluez]

> But are those products converting to business results? Are those quality products someone will pay for?

Yes. Unequivocally.

I'm in healthcare. I've sat in 20-30 different demos over the last 2 years, all of which involve AI in some capacity and at least half of those were solutions that had already built a customer base.

But a lot of devs won't know that because they aren't sitting in meetings where product decisions are made. I'm in a unique position, but that doesn't meet it's not happening.