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What We Lost the Last Time Code Got Cheap (www.poppastring.com)
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[-] ell1e@leminal.space 71 points 1 week ago

We need the equivalent investment now. If average code is cheap, then the scarce resource is no longer the ability to produce it. The scarce resource is the ability to read it, to navigate it

You know what would help a lot with understanding the code one is working on? Writing it yourself without turning your brain off via AI.

But that's an insight the article somehow seems to be missing.

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