99% of AI Apps Are Just Fancy Garbage

Hot Take:

Let’s be brutally honest: most of these so-called “AI-powered” apps are nothing more than glorified templates with a ChatGPT API slapped on top. Another AI note-taker? Groundbreaking. Yet another AI that turns your to-do list into motivational quotes? Wow, Silicon Valley is truly thriving.

Every tech bro and their dog thinks they’re a founder because they paid $20 for an OpenAI key and wrapped it in a pretty UI. Spoiler alert: calling it “AI” doesn’t make it innovative. It’s lazy, recycled, and utterly useless.

We’ve hit peak nonsense. AI apps that summarize articles we didn’t want to read, generate emails we didn’t need to send, and create content no one asked for. And don’t even get me started on AI dating profile generators—because nothing screams “authentic human connection” like outsourcing your personality to an algorithm.

The truth? Most of these apps aren’t solving problems. They’re solving inconveniences for people too lazy to think for themselves. You’re not building the future—you’re building digital clutter.

Meanwhile, the only people getting rich off this trend are the ones selling you the AI dream: the course peddlers, the prompt engineering “gurus,” and the SaaS bros hyping up their AI widget that’ll be dead in six months.

Here’s a thought: if your AI app vanished tomorrow and no one noticed, it probably shouldn’t exist.

Build something real. Solve an actual problem. Or better yet, stop building and start reflecting on why you think the world needs your half-baked AI side project.