alt Hacker NewsWriting code is cheaper than ever. Maintaining it is exactly the same as ever and it scales with the LOC.
Code is still liability but it's undeniable that going from thought to running code is very cheap today.
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allthetime • yesterday at 5:49 PM
Maintaining it is becoming more costly. The increasing burden of review on FOSS maintainers is one example. AWS going down because an agent decided to re-write a piece of critical infrastructure is another. We are rapidly creating new kinds of liability.
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You completely ignored the post you're replying to.
To recap, the author disagrees that writing code is cheap, because we've collectively invested trillions of dollars and redirected entire supply chains into automating code generation. The externalities will be paid for generations to come by all of humanity; it's just not reflected in your Claude subscription.