In 1950, while discussing the recent wave of flying saucer reports over lunch with colleagues at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, physicist Enrico Fermi asked a simple question. There are hundreds of billions of stars in our Milky Way galaxy, and - presumed at the time - a significant percentage have Earth-like habitable…

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Despite claims that AI can generate working software in minutes for pennies, there's a notable absence of successful AI-generated applications in the market. No AI-built competitors to major platforms like Spotify, Salesforce, or SAP exist, and app stores show no significant increase in AI-generated products. This disconnect between the hype around AI coding tools and the lack of tangible results in production software mirrors Fermi's famous question about extraterrestrial life: if it's so easy, where is everybody?

The Gorman Paradox: Where Are All The AI-Generated Apps?

<p>The comparison doesn’t really work. For example, human made products would already have a difficult time to compete with those huge established giants.
Secondly, if everybody can do it, then the supply will be always way too large. A good example is illegal drug retail. It’s so easy to make some drugs, the supply would always be way too large if the competitors wouldn’t regularly kill each other in drug wars.</p>
