“Fewer Users” Warning Hurting Specialized and New Apps

Post by conductr » Fri, May 02, 2025, 9:22 PM UTC

Y_Y wrote: post #128

serial_dev wrote: post #116

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My new startup idea: “upload the same release with a different version and build number about once a month till the end of times" as a service .

My new startup idea: malicious compliance as a service You forward us complaint emails and we create some AI slopscript that fulfils the least compliant interpretation of the rule it can think of. The goal would be to use automated nonsense to try to frustrate MBAs who have managed to burrow all the way to the brain of a tech giant and are now burdening humanity with their folly.

Post by axus » Fri, May 02, 2025, 9:23 PM UTC

llm_nerd wrote: post #113

anilakar wrote: post #57

Our company just got a warning that we have sixty days to release something on Play or have our developer console account closed. The email made it pretty clear that Google wants developers to continuously push new versions to customers. We have no new features nor bug fixes in backlog. There is nothing to update. The only purpose of our software is to control hardware that our company makes. Nobody uses it for fun,…

I've had a Google developer console/play account for a decade+. Recently had to send some proof of identity stuff in their anti-spam thing -- which I did because who knows one day I might care about the account -- but I haven't released anything there in eight years. No threats of closing my account. Did they instead just warn that they would unpublish the app? Google does have minimum API levels that they slowly mov…

Post by dotancohen » Fri, May 02, 2025, 9:31 PM UTC

PeeMcGee wrote: post #160

balder1991 wrote: post #137

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Now I’m envisioning a future where nothing works and everything is halted endlessly because it is being handled by LLMs talking to LLMs, which summarize things so that other LLMs make a decision that gets expanded to a huge text with inconsistencies that in the end don’t make sense anymore.

The singularity but stupid

Post by brianwawok » Fri, May 02, 2025, 9:37 PM UTC

balder1991 wrote: post #137

alterom wrote: post #132

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They're ahead of you. They're already using AI slop to come up with these rules in the first place, to verify compliance, and to respond to your complaints. It's AI slop all the way down. And the shittier things are, the more raise they get for successfully moving the needle of utilization of AI in the business model.

Now I’m envisioning a future where nothing works and everything is halted endlessly because it is being handled by LLMs talking to LLMs, which summarize things so that other LLMs make a decision that gets expanded to a huge text with inconsistencies that in the end don’t make sense anymore.

Post by reddalo » Fri, May 02, 2025, 10:00 PM UTC

Marsymars wrote: post #174

tlogan wrote: post #38

It would be great if they added something like a “frequently uninstalled app” label. That’s much more helpful for users. But I get why Google prefers this kind of warning — it supports their ad business. (I really want “frequently uninstalled” label for games: because games are very often 100% different than what they show or describe)

Would hurt some utility apps though - sometimes I download an app to use for one thing, it works perfectly, and I uninstall it. (You get an automatic refund if you pay for an app and then uninstall again quickly. I've repurchased apps that I've been refunded for in this way - I don't want to punish developers who make apps that accomplish their function quickly.)