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Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?

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413 points martinald | 1 comments | 08 Dec 25 19:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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simonw ◴[08 Dec 25 22:37 UTC] No.46198601[source]▶
The cost of writing simple code has dropped 90%.

If you can reduce a problem to a point where it can be solved by simple code you can get the rest of the solution very quickly.

Reducing a problem to a point where it can be solved with simple code takes a lot of skill and experience and is generally still quite a time-consuming process.

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trollbridge ◴[09 Dec 25 03:41 UTC] No.46201013[source]▶
Well said. The cost of building a CRUD has dropped 90%.

The open question is why people needed fancy AI tools like Claude to write CRUDs in the first place. These kind of tasks ought to be have been automated a long time ago.

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1. eloisant ◴[09 Dec 25 11:02 UTC] No.46203546[source]▶
That went 90% down even before AI, Rails and the other frameworks, libraries, tooling have made a big difference compared to earlier years.

The number of lines of code to be written is much, much lower than in the early 2000's.