Writing code is cheap now

One of the biggest challenges right now in my opinion is disambiguating what processes _were_ necessary from those that are _still_ necessary and useful in light of exactly this.

Writing code has been cheap for a while now.

Writing good software is still expensive.

It's going to take everybody a while to figure that out (just like with outsourcing)

This fact is opening the floodgates of low-end products, which are somehow better than nothing, but are embarrassing to use.

> Good code still has a cost

> Delivering new code has dropped in price to almost free... but delivering good code remains significantly more expensive than that.

Writing code was always cheap to start with. Just outsource it to the lowest bidder. Writing good code remains as expensive.

The same when programmers from different languages are considered. How many Scala/Haskell engineers can I find compared to Java is not the question. It is about how many good engineers you can hire. With Haskell that pool is definitely denser.

I don't agree that the code is cheap. It doesn't require a pipeline of people to be trained and that is huge, but it's not cheap.

Tokens are expensive. We don't know what the actual cost is yet. We have startups, who aren't turning a profit, buying up all the capacity of the supply chain. There are so many impacts here that we don't have the data on.