Amitai Schleier
@schmonz@schmonz.com
1. No clear short-term savings from reduction in labor costs
2. Increased code volume and decreased quality correlate with a familiar upwards-bending cost curve… assuming the economics work the same for agent- or assistant-maintained code… assuming maintenance matters the way it used to
3. Making code review “load-bearing” is risky and invites failure
@schmonz @sumisu yes to all three.
On your economics question in point 2: there was another excellent writeup about “decoherence” recently, that I think answers it thoroughly: https://maevyn.codes/decoherence
And I think this week has been a remarkable demonstration of what happens when you let quality dip too far, in software systems! I don’t think we can really afford to just let things suck.