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Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?

(martinalderson.com)
413 points martinald | 1 comments | 08 Dec 25 19:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.195s | source
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Agingcoder ◴[08 Dec 25 22:03 UTC] No.46198263[source]▶
> One objection I hear a lot is that LLMs are only good at greenfield projects. I'd push back hard on this. I've spent plenty of time trying to understand 3-year-old+ codebases where everyone who wrote it has left.

Where I am, 3 year old is greenfield, and old and large is 20 years old and has 8million lines of nasty c++. I’ll have to wait a bit more I think …

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1. glouwbug ◴[09 Dec 25 02:51 UTC] No.46200715[source]▶
The argument is building anew is 90% cheaper.

I can’t see LLMs contributing to anything this size when they can’t remember what I said 4 messages ago