I have a few app ideas that I've been sitting on for years and they would all be things that would help me, things that I would actually use.. But they're also things that I think others would find useful. I had Claude Code create two of them so far, and yeah the code isn't what I would write, but the apps generally work and are useful to me. The idea of trying to monetize these apps that I didn't even write is strange to me, especially considering anyone else can just tell their Claude Code to "create an app that's a clone of appwebsite.com" and within an hour they will probably have a virtually identical clone of my app that I'm trying to charge money for.

In this way, AI coding is a bummer. I also sincerely miss writing code. Merely reading it (or being a QA and telling Claude about bugs I find) is a shell of what software engineering used to be.

I know with apps especially, all that really matters is how large your user base is, but to spend all that time and money getting the user base, only for them to jump ship next month for an even better vibe-coded solution... eh. I don't have any answers, I just agree that everyone has the same ideas and it's just going to be another form of enshittification. "My AI slop is better than your AI slop".