Opinion | A.I. Was Supposed to Give Us New Killer Apps. What Happened? (Gift Article)

Everyone else is worried about the AI apocalypse but I’ve been hearing about that for 30 years and I can’t get very worked up any more. For me the question is: If these things can code (and they can!) then why aren’t we seeing any great software? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...

This makes some great points, but I really don’t think it’s giving enough credit to all the innovative CSAM apps being advertised on major tech platforms

One of the few LLM experts worth paying attention to. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...

“Now that everyone can code, it’s become clearer why many shouldn’t”. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...

@ftrain.bsky.social captures my own experience with using LLMs for coding (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o... As LLMs have improved, I’ve written small (and not so small) applications to help reduce friction at work.

Papier plutôt intéressant du NYT qui rappelle quelque chose d'essentiel : c'est pas parce que le vibe coding est une chose qu'il est pour autant bon. Et que les gens vont utiliser du slopware.

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"Now that everyone can code, it’s become clearer why many shouldn't." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...

AI sucks ass. The public hates it and 95% of big corporate efforts to increase productivity with AI fail, per this article. But there's a vision. A promise! To put everyone out of work, drench the world in regurgitated slop, and create a Torment Nexus.

Really interesting article on what we are learning about the usefulness of AI in improving productivity TLDR It’s helpful only on the margins so far Major projects still need good humans (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...

Great essay! A.I. is "very good at reproducing things that look and feel like what came before...But making something new, something no one has seen before, takes much more time — sometimes just as long as it took before A.I." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...

Good article www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...

"Now that everyone can code, it’s become clearer why many shouldn’t." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...

‘The future may not be a few huge apps running on a few huge platforms, generating tons of revenue; it could instead be tons of little ones, purpose-built for the church, mutual aid group, company department or softball league.’ www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...

A.I. Slopware Is Everywhere Now. Nobody Is Using It. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...

Paul Ford's NYT piece asks why AI hasn't produced a killer app. In enterprise IT, that's the wrong question. The opportunity is the backlog: small, known problems that never justified a project. AI's job isn't the next SAP. Rather, it is clearing the backlog. New opportunities then follow

Having made an app for myself to take notes when I break a story, I agree. So far the use case of LLMs that I can predict is we'll interact with computers differently. I can get a computer to do things, not by learning an app, but by telling the computer to do things. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...

A.I. Slopware Is Everywhere Now. Nobody Is Using It Discussion

More good stuff from Paul Ford > A.I. Slopware Is Everywhere Now. Nobody Is Using It. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...

A.I. Was Supposed to Give Us New Killer Apps. What Happened? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...

"Which gets to something fundamental about A.I. coding, and A.I. in general: It’s very good at reproducing things that look and feel like what came before." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...

A.I. Slopware Is Everywhere Now. Nobody Is Using It. ⁠ Paul Ford writes for The New York Times 🔗 ➡️ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/opinion/ai-software-coding-apps.html ⁠ Follow us for more: # #science #jewish #judaism #religion #new

In a nutshell: ".. A.I.’s real strength may be to make many new things that play a more moderate, specific role: reducing sources of small friction that otherwise stack up in our lives." Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...

A.I. Slopware Is Everywhere Now. Nobody Is Using It. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...

A.I. Slopware Is Everywhere Now. Nobody Is Using It. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...

App Store listings grew 30% last year while downloads rose just 3%, and a separate MIT study found 95% of corporate AI projects fail

[NYT] A.I. SLOPWARE IS EVERYWHERE NOW. NOBODY IS USING IT.

This is worth a read and also encourages you to think about ai without thinking about what its myriad grifters, psychos and excitable children are saying