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So where are all the AI apps?

Answer.AI's PyPI study reveals AI hasn't delivered promised productivity gains—instead, activity is concentrated narrowly in the AI tooling ecosystem.

Friday, March 27, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: Sidebar.ioBY sys://pipeline

Answer.AI analyzes PyPI data to test whether AI tools have measurably boosted developer productivity, finding no broad uptick in package creation or update frequency post-ChatGPT. The one clear signal: popular AI-ecosystem packages doubled their release frequency (~21-26 releases/year vs ~10 for non-AI), but this is concentrated narrowly and likely driven by capital inflows into AI rather than productivity gains. The conclusion is that AI has produced a burst of activity within the AI tooling ecosystem itself, not a general software productivity revolution.

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