> Not every engineering effort is a product in search of market fit or a community

I think you misunderstood my point: by "legitimate stand-out products", I meant exactly that, with no connotation of commercialization. Maybe you can agree that having a high signal-to-noise ratio for (open source) projects is a desirable goal?

> Some things are already very useful as just a one shot.

I agree. I too have made or forked about a dozen apps and tools in the past few months. It would be dishonest not to consider the flipside, that this software is overfitted to the needs of a single person. Further, this hyper-bespoke software typically feature-complete within moments of the final prompt, and I have,on occasion, completely forgot about the tool/app I spent a weekend created, it clearly wasn't worth the effort I put in.

> The greatest thing that LLMs have done is allow many to achieve things that they couldn't have before.

Let's not pretend there isn't a cost to this.