alt Hacker NewsIf you take what I said out of context with zero charity, sure.
> and would have taken me months to write by hand
That implies humans can write it because I am a human and presumably other humans can too. I was making a statement about it not being possible to write it in any justifiable amount of resources.
My company would fail if I spent months on this, but a week to harden init is for sure worth it.
I interpreted that as you saying in a few months you could write the code but not to those standards.
If a single person can do the full job to full standards in a few months, then the whole idea of it being too annoying for a human to ever do falls apart. That's not that expensive. Your company can't spare you, sure, but most companies could handle that price.
And even with the adjustment to being something it's easy to hire someone for, that's still ballparks away from "in a week for a few dollars". Nearly every coding project is impossible for humans by that standard.