Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?

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.

> The cost of writing simple code has dropped 90%.

Plus there's a lot of simple code you shouldn't be writing either way, because it's in a library by now.

By their nature, LLMs will do their best with things that could be plagiarized.

Aren't we having major issues with there being too many small libraries right now and dependency chain that grows exponentially? I have thought LLMs will actually benefit us a lot here, with not having to use a lib for every little thing (leftpad etc?).

Frankly if you were relying on libraries like Leftpad to you probably had no business writing code before AI

And if you rely on AI to write that code now you still have no business writing code

Why should I retype something that in my life I have probably already written 10s of times?