The big #AI companies told everyone that they could build a whole app using an #LLM.
The real software developers like myself quickly found out that it was absolutely not true, unless it’s a simple little app/website. AI is definitely useful, but it still requires you to know programming if you want to build something awesome.
Because of this, much of the hype has died off. There’s still hype, but people are getting much more realistic about what current LLMs are capable of.
I think a lot people has gotten an app idea at some point - not only developers, but also completely normal people.
The normal people were told that they could use LLMs to build their app ideas. Then they tried, and quickly figured out that it’s actually way harder and the AI still requires a lot of guidance. You can’t just write a prompt and expect the AI to give you a perfectly usable and functional app. If you don’t know how to program, you can’t read and understand the code that the AI writes, which makes it impossible to guide it in a precise way.
I suppose this is the reason for why tools like Lovable are getting less Google searches. A lot of these LLM tools were made for people who couldn’t code and now those people seem to be using AI a lot less for trying to build their app ideas. Basically, they gave up, which means many AI tools are experiencing less growth and perhaps even a decline.