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claytongulicktoday at 1:25 AM1 replyview on HN

Thank you for making a really important point.

The lifespan of software can easily be ten or more years.

If it takes a few more months to write by hand to ensure correctness and proper abstraction, what does that save over the lifetime of the codebase?


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lmztoday at 1:48 AM

It's a rare piece of software that lasts that long. For the rest of us there's LLMs.