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killiancarrolltoday at 9:45 AM2 repliesview on HN

Well put, and I think the problem extends beyond agentic systems to regular software. Someone in an organisation whips up a useful product, publishes it and is now on the hook for bug fixes, feature requests and operations. The maintenance cost is often much larger than the cost of building it now that producing an MVP is so easy.


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munchlertoday at 11:12 AM

It actually extends to all automation, even before computers. Replacing oxen with tractors? Now you have to keep the tractors running.

Frankybeatztoday at 10:55 AM

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