The App Store has seen big submission numbers before. New releases peaked at about 890,000 in 2016, then steadily declined for years, bottoming out around 420,000 by 2022. The current surge marks a sharp reversal of that decline, but this wave looks different from the last one. While the past boom came largely from professional developers, this one is being driven by people with no coding background at all. The Times points to a Chicago engineer who used AI tools to build and publish two apps...
