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Instead of being very hard, time-consuming, and expensive to generate code, it became effectively free and instant
simonw on Hacker News
In the thread “AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less”
Helped: Lower cost of code generation allowed building small tools and libraries.
> What happened in 2025 was this: the economics of code production were turned upside down . Instead of being very hard, time-consuming, and expensive to generate code, it became effectively free and instant. Lines of code went from being treasured, reused, cared for and carefully curated, to being disposable and regenerable, practically overnight. …