My hunch is that the amount of shovelware (or really, any software) is mostly proportional to the number of engineers wishing to work on that. Even if AI made

My hunch is that the amount of shovelware (or really, any software) is mostly proportional to the number of engineers wishing to work on that. Even if AI made them more productive, it's on a person to decide what to build and how to ship, so the number (and desire) of humans is a bottleneck. Maybe at some point AI will start buying up domains and spinning up hundreds of random indiehacker micro-SaaS, but we're not there. Yet.