Paul Kedrosky
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first heard Apr 2026
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What has it led to?
Because producing more stuff that shows up on GitHub is just a need-immediate variable.
Nobody in the real economy cares other than maybe Microsoft.
And even they probably wish there was probably a little less activity on GitHub.
They used iOS apps, Android apps, and one other category.
Anyways, they showed that the number of reviews per app has declined sharply as the number of repositories and commits has gone up.
Essentially, what we're seeing—and this is the thing that I think is really important—
These can be very effective if wildly subsidized productivity tools for coders, but the end economic result is mostly the production of sort of slop everything.
Slop apps, slop content.
You're flooding and commoditizing these markets that are becoming both saturated and declining margins.
This is an incredibly important distinction that just because it's helping you produce more stuff
It doesn't mean that in the broader economy, its ability to absorb it has increased, nor does it care.
And that's what this paper shows.
And I think the idea that we're doing all of this work and what's increasingly become expensive work using tokens to produce things and makes coders very happy having things running in agentic loops.
But the broader economy doesn't give a fuck.
Voodoo teen economics.
Yeah, it really is.
And again, it goes to that National Bureau of Economic Research paper.
It's exactly the same thing.
I was mentioning at the top, there is this tremendous, and I'll send you the link if you haven't seen it, and it's called Where is AI and GDP Statistics?
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