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Economics of AI
Is AI actually making intelligence “cheap” — or just making it look cheap for a while?
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Notes on engineering, AI-assisted development, and the parts of building software that don't fit in a code review.
Is AI actually making intelligence “cheap” — or just making it look cheap for a while?
Running a language model on your own machine used to be limited to an elite few with powerful hardware and technical expertise. Not any more!
Four things have to align for an AI coding agent to work. Miss one and you will waste time fighting the tool.
The real productivity win from AI isn't writing code faster — it's reducing the archaeology so developers can think.
Every line of code is a place for bugs to hide. AI changes the economics — but it is leverage, and leverage is asymmetric.