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Code Got Cheap. Quality Didn't: Why "AI Makes Software Worthless" Gets the Cost Structure Wrong

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TL;DR AI has made generating code dramatically cheaper, but it has not made defining quality, proving conformance, or accumulating real-world trust cheap. The cost structure of software is shifting: implementation is becoming abundant, while explicit definitions, validation, traceability, and opera…

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  1. 2026-09-25 10:01 · DEV Community — AI
    Code Got Cheap. Quality Didn't: Why "AI Makes Software Worthless" Gets the Cost Structure Wrong

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