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Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?

(martinalderson.com)
413 points martinald | 3 comments | 08 Dec 25 19:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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vb-8448 ◴[08 Dec 25 22:05 UTC] No.46198283[source]▶
It's not just about "building" ... who is going to maintain all this new sub-par code pushed to production every day?

Who is going to patch all bugs, edge cases and security vulnerabilities?

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1. mountainriver ◴[08 Dec 25 22:44 UTC] No.46198683[source]▶
I hear this argument all the time but it seems to leave out code reviews
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2. nsxwolf ◴[08 Dec 25 23:16 UTC] No.46199024[source]▶
In teams of high performers who have built a lot of mutual trust, code reviews are mostly a formality and a stop gap against the big, obvious accidental blunders. "LGTM!"

I do not know or trust the agents that are putting out all this code, and the code review process is very different.

Watching the Copilot code review plugin complain about Agent code on top of it all has been quite an experience.

3. bagacrap ◴[09 Dec 25 16:31 UTC] No.46206928[source]▶
like a vibe coder knows what a code review is, or an LLM knows how to take feedback