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AI makes building easy. It does not make people care.
A recent study tracked 100,000 developers using AI coding tools. The results show a massive gap. Code commits jumped 180%. But project releases only grew by 30%. Total usage stayed the same.
The pattern is clear. AI increases output. It does not increase demand.
The App Store shows the same trend. New app submissions rose 24% last year. Some quarters saw an 84% jump. People can now ship an app in a weekend using chat windows. Yet, total app downloads grew by less than 1%.
The shelves are full. No new people came to shop.
We are hitting an attention ceiling. People spend more time on apps, but that time stays in the same places. Social and communication apps eat most of the mobile market. Growth is slowing down.
The math is simple:
- The cost of building collapsed.
- The cost of being worth using stayed the same.
When building was expensive, it acted as a filter. You had to be sure an idea was good before you spent months coding. Now, the filter is gone. You can ship a bad idea in an afternoon.
The bottleneck has moved. It is no longer about whether you can build. It is about whether your product deserves to exist.
Most people use AI to create more noise. They add more output to a crowded room. To win, you must focus on judgment.
How to build with intent:
- Start with evidence. Use real user pain, not assumptions.
- Define the outcome first. Do not just build a feature. Decide what specific user behavior you want to change.
- Name your constraints. Decide what you will not build to avoid feature drift.
AI collapsed the cost of production. It did not change the scarcity of human attention.
The skill of the future is not typing code. It is deciding what is worth the user's time.
Source: https://dev.to/pathmode/the-cost-of-being-worth-using-nbj
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