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JohnMakinlast Monday at 8:04 PM2 repliesview on HN

This article mentions cost to ship, but ignores that the largest cost of any software project isn't consumed by how long it takes to get to market, but by maintenance and addition of new features. How is agentic coding doing there? I've only seen huge, unmaintainable messes so far.


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p2detarlast Monday at 8:20 PM

While this is true, I think some fields like game development may not always have this problem. If your goal is to release a non-upgradable game - fps, arcade, single-player titles, maintenance may be much less important than shipping.

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bdangubiclast Monday at 8:10 PM

one year in, AI slop > Human-written slop

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