AI coding is faster, so why aren't there more new apps?
What happened
On October 13, Hacker News featured Nate Meyvis asking why faster AI coding has not produced more visible new software. He lists several candidate explanations: gains may show up as fixes, performance and features in existing products, sit in private custom tools, or come from short one-off uses of Claude. He also raises enterprise approval processes that did not speed up, teams spending the saved time on leisure, and more development not meaning better software. Meyvis says some of these are speculative and should carry less weight. The post does not confirm which explanation is the main one.
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- Hacker News front pageWhere is all the new, good software?
Nate Meyvis 为 AI 编码提速却未带来更多显眼的新软件提出多种候选解释，并强调其中部分具有推测性、应赋予较低权重。改进可能体现在现有产品的缺陷、性能和功能上，也可能藏在私人定制工具或用 Claude 直接完成任务的短暂使用中。企业审批流程未同步加速、团队将效率收益用于休闲，以及更多开发未必带来更好软件，也被列为可能原因。
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