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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: 0s | 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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1. danmaz74 ◴[09 Dec 25 12:29 UTC] No.46204213[source]▶
I wouldn't say that the distinction is so much about code being "simple", but about code being made of patterns common enough in online examples. Claude Code and similar can write even very complex code, as long as it's something they have been trained on.