Ask HN: Is the Surge of AI-Gen Tools by Inexperienced Developers Worrying You?

4 vseplet 2 4/28/2025, 11:15:23 PM

Are you concerned about the rapidly growing number of services/tools and other software created by inexperienced developers with the help of AI in just a couple of evenings?

I believe that the abundance of such services in the near future could create 'problems' for the functioning of well-built software. In other words, it may become increasingly difficult for developers of quality software to monetize their work. But perhaps I’m wrong.

Comments (2)

cheevly · 2d ago

If ‘quality software’ is difficult to monetize, then it means the users do not agree with your definition of ‘quality’.

vseplet · 2d ago

not necessarily. It may be that you alone will simply get lost among the hundreds of low-quality products that have flooded the entire