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Ask HN: Where are all the disruptive software that AI promised?

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Re: Ask HN: Where are all the disruptive software that AI promised?

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No, you're not! It's only a matter of attention. Today all eyes are on the LLM itself, but the big change is happening underground. I'm not a developer — I'm just a curious arborist who owns a company that prunes trees in Italy. In 4 months we have totally changed our company with the help of AI. AI, LLMs are just tools. It's the use that changes the output!

Suspicious emdash, new account, gushingly positive about AI. Weird.

Strange, even

Re: Ask HN: Where are all the disruptive software that AI promised?

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Because AI only drove down the cost of writing code, not the cost of finding Product-Market Fit. Sure, you can spin up another Notion or Jira clone over the weekend using Cursor or Claude Code now. But getting users to actually migrate their data, change their workflow habits, and pay for it is just as brutally hard as it was a decade ago. Code is just a cheap commodity now, while distribution and trust have become e…

> Sure, you can spin up another Notion or Jira clone over the weekend using Cursor or Claude Code now.

You can't.

Re: Ask HN: Where are all the disruptive software that AI promised?

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Video games are particularly prominent example of the absence of such apps. You'd think that with the indie market booming we'd be seeing tons of interesting new games as well as game devs sharing their AI workflows and yet there seems to be nothing. I can't recall a single popular game in the past 5 years that would be vibecoded or significantly enhanced by the use of AI.

Re: Ask HN: Where are all the disruptive software that AI promised?

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There is a change, slowly moving forwards. The number of mass produced applications, for everything, everywhere is happening. It is like pollution! A lot of people are trying their luck, building something, from their sofa, some of them with high confidence and no experience.

Re: Ask HN: Where are all the disruptive software that AI promised?

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The disruption is 101% happening but it's mostly invisible from the outside. iI think its not new apps replacing old ones rather the same apps doing things that used to require 3x the headcount.

That said there are a few genuine examples

Cursor basically replaced how a lot of developers write code, Eleven Labs made voiceover work that used to cost thousands into a $5 task, and Gamma turned presentations from a half-day job into 10 minutes none of these replaced entire industries overnight but they each quietly made a whole category of work much much cheaper.

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