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Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?

(martinalderson.com)
413 points martinald | 2 comments | 08 Dec 25 19:00 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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o999 ◴[09 Dec 25 09:36 UTC] No.46203069[source]▶
Some indirect results to this might be:

- More engineers moving from employment to indie development.

- Less abandoned open source software.

- Indie developers, small teams, and open source software developers will be more able to catch up and better compete with tech giants.

I believe the AI agentic coders will threat tech giants more than it - collectively - threats software engineers.

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1. drcxd ◴[09 Dec 25 09:51 UTC] No.46203153[source]▶
> I believe the AI agentic coders will threat tech giants more than it - collectively - threats software engineers.

Currently, I don't think so. Coding agents' performance generally depends on the quality of the model behind them. Running a powerful model is assets-dependent. Not everyone has the hardware and power to support Sonnet 4.5 or Gemini 3 even if they are open-source. So, before the top notch models can be deployed on personal computing devices, I would not say coding agents will threat any organization.

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2. o999 ◴[09 Dec 25 10:39 UTC] No.46203436[source]▶
You don't have to self host, $100/engineer/mo is enough for many usecases.