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Most of Flathub's AI-generated apps were abandoned within months [XDA, Jul 18, 2026]
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Of course they are. That slop is unmaintainable.
Behold, the future of software development: disposable slop!
Why maintain software for decades when you can just abandon it and make a completely new one 3 months later? Don't need to maintain the code if you just throw it away and build a new one instead.
And all it will cost is a massive amount of AI tokens and environmental damage.
Google (the company) As A Service. Make new things and discard them, unsupported.
Hopefully we will see a lot less of it with the cost of AI going up. Eventually it will just be the big companies that can afford it.
That can afford it for now. Shit is gonna make their whole ecosystem a fragile jenga tower in no time, even the biggest ones.
The highly subsidized Anthropic and OpenAI subscriptions will go away, but open weight models are getting much better over time - GLM-5.2 and Kimi K3 are both very good.
The most expensive part by far is training the model. That's why OpenAI and Anthropic are losing so much money (well, that and the subscriptions).
With an open weight model, someone has already trained it, and you just have to cover the cost of inference, making it a lot cheaper. Any company (or individual!) with powerful enough equipment can host the model, which means there's competition in terms of price, compared to something like Claude Opus where the only four hosts (Anthropic, Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, and Azure AI Foundry) use Anthropic's pricing.
Not really true though. They are loosing money on the subscriptions, because people use it way more then they thought. So using on Orem AI could still be insany expensive.
It's not way more than they thought because it's within the limits they set for the subscriptions. They wouldn't have set the limits that high if they didn't think people would use it.
At least it doesn't come wrapped in plastic, though I guess big tech will figure out a way to do that too in the next few years