When Something Gets Cheap, You Get Asked for More of It
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There is an old pattern that keeps coming back. Make a thing cheaper and people do not use the same amount for less money. They use far more of it. Roads get wider and the traffic arrives to fill them. Storage gets cheap and nobody deletes anything ever again. Writing code is getting cheaper. So th…
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- 2026-09-09 07:14 · DEV Community — AI
When Something Gets Cheap, You Get Asked for More of It