Re: Most slopcode projects are abandoned and deleted within months of release

Man, I've been circling on this idea for some weeks now and couldn't quite figure out the best way to open, but I think this is a great one:

About a month ago, Flathub announced a ban on slopcoded applications. Evangelos “GeopJr” Paterakis, developer of a number of popular Linux applications and ton of other things, did some research into just how many applications tagged with “AI slop”, a tag Flathub reviewers used to keep track of slopcoded applications submitted to Flathub, actually survived the test of time. The results are exactly what you’d expect.

Thom Holwerda, Most slopcode projects are abandoned and deleted within months of release – OSnews

Setting aside my own dislike of the term 'slop', I think Thom is hitting on an important topic.

Building is fun and interesting but maintaining? Not so much. My takeaway from this is that we should beware of single developer projects, especially ones a developer coded with LLM coding agents.

I'm certain there are successful single developer projects that are around for the long term, but a single developer who used AI to develop their project seems very likely to abandon it when they get bored and are ready to move on.

So, maybe give a new project a year of releases before you start using it for anything important.