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Quoting Charity Majors

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Charity Majors observes that in 2025, the economics of code production flipped: code became free and instant, transforming from a treasured resource to a disposable commodity.

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17th June 2026

What happened in 2025 was this: the economics of code production were turned upside down. Instead of being very hard, time-consuming, and expensive to generate code, it became effectively free and instant. Lines of code went from being treasured, reused, cared for and carefully curated, to being disposable and regenerable, practically overnight.

— Charity Majors, AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less

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  • Code production cost dropped from high to nearly free and instant.
  • Code changed from a carefully curated asset to a disposable, regenerable item.
  • Quote from Charity Majors' article 'AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less'.

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