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Agentic Coding is Burning Me Out | Sid's Blog (0xsid.com)
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[–] 6 points 4 months ago (5 children)

When the cost to ship trash code trends toward zero, then there will not be value in shipping trash code. Companies will need to focus on software that is actually competitive (in a qualitative way) because otherwise their customers will just self-vend the slop code.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (3 children)

    I think you have something backwards. When the cost to ship trash code trends to zero, the profit trends to infinity.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (2 children)

    The cheaper it is to produce slop code, the less the demand there will be to buy it. Companies will self-vend instead of buying the slop being sold. Your profit margins are someone else's inefficiency.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago

    Based on my time in the corporate world, the new meta will probably be about how well you can hide the slop in your SaaS until you have enough of their data in your servers to make migration impractical.

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