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Code Is Cheap. Software Isn’t.

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AI has made writing code incredibly cheap. But building software that can survive change, scale, and someone else’s bad decisions is still engineering. A founder told me this while negotiating a contract. His argument was simple: “If we have AI to generate code, why should we pay for a developer’s…

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  1. 2026-09-20 10:31 · DEV Community — AI
    Code Is Cheap. Software Isn’t.

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