Code Is Cheap Now, and That Changes Everything
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Code Is Cheap Now, and That Changes Everything
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#2Found this really well written. I really enjoyed reading it, and found myself agreeing with a lot of it.
I wish the author wrote more about the day 2 problem cases with AI built applications. It somewhat matters what the programming language is, the architecture and design for debugging and reasoning verification when we want to alter the system specification.
Basically as a Dev, or "Owner" of the application, we are responsible for the continuous changes and updates to the system. Which I've found hard to reason about in practice when speaking to other people, if I dont know the code explicitly.
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#3"That’s not a forecast. That’s the current state."
Something about this sentence sequence looks vaguely familiar...
Re: Code Is Cheap Now, and That Changes Everything
#4Found this really well written. I really enjoyed reading it, and found myself agreeing with a lot of it. I wish the author wrote more about the day 2 problem cases with AI built applications. It somewhat matters what the programming language is, the architecture and design for debugging and reasoning verification when we want to alter the system specification. Basically as a Dev, or "Owner" of the application, we are…
They allude to it, but I think one of the new skills that will be valuable is reasoning about systems where you don't know the code. This is what “owners” and managers who don’t touch code do today.
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#6AI assisted development is the generalists dream
Althought it still hasn't solved procrastinating the next plan prompt
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#7> Developers who learn to specify, verify, and iterate will thrive.
This will last for about one year.
From next year agents will be prompting themselves. Human developers will have approximately zero economic value.
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#8I would question the framing that code is cheap now. That's not really meaningful. What is the cost most associated with software? Maintenance.
Considering that, I would say a much more accurate statement is that sub-prime technical debt is now easy to take on.
I'm surprised at the low quality of the grifting comments in this thread. I have a feeling that the vibe coding enjoyers used to at least make defensible statements. Now it's just pure hype. Seems like we're in the SBF being lauded for FTX part of the bubble.
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#9Shit code was always cheap, this is why "technical debt" exists as a concept.
Re: Code Is Cheap Now, and That Changes Everything
#10I would question the framing that code is cheap now. That's not really meaningful. What is the cost most associated with software? Maintenance. Considering that, I would say a much more accurate statement is that sub-prime technical debt is now easy to take on. I'm surprised at the low quality of the grifting comments in this thread. I have a feeling that the vibe coding enjoyers used to at least make defensible stat…
> sub-prime technical debt is now easy to take on
Vibe-coded projects can't keep up with the scale of technical debt accretion. See the proliferation of OpenClaw clones - instead of fixing it we're iterating on rewriting it from scratch without fixing the core issues. (Give it a year and the "minimal" Claw-clones will also collapse under technical debt, because they're also vibe-coded, with all that implies.)