#ai-apps

HN latched onto Answer.AI's PyPI analysis because it puts numbers behind an uncomfortable question: AI may be accelerating iteration inside AI tools, but the broad software boom many people expected is still hard to see in public package data.

An r/artificial discussion described how an internal AI tool leaked its detailed system prompt despite explicit instructions not to reveal it. The thread's practical consensus was that prompt text should be treated as public-facing and that sensitive logic belongs in backend code.