People keep asking whether apps built with AI die faster than the rest. So I followed 6,849 apps built with Lovable and v0 in October 2025, and 2,519 ordinary new React apps created on the same days, for a year.
A month after creation, 83% of the Lovable apps, 80% of the v0 apps and 79% of the ordinary React apps had seen their last change.
A year on, about one in twenty-five in every group was still being changed.
Of the deployed apps I could check, between 69% and 81% still answer.
The AI-built apps are barely more disposable. The surprise is how fast everything else goes quiet too.
What I took from it as a builder: a project going quiet after a few weeks is normal, with or without AI. The part worth a thought is what outlives the work. Most of the deployed ones I could check are still online, still holding whatever keys and data they were given, and nobody is changing their code.
Full method and data in the X Article (28 Oct): https://x.com/con_golias/status/2115509157382193237