SMRTR ProgrammingFeb 23, 2026Hacker News

Writing code is cheap now

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Agentic engineering fundamentally disrupts software development economics by making code generation cheap while good code remains expensive. Traditional engineering habits around planning, design, and micro-decisions were built on costly development time. Now developers must rebuild intuitions about trade-offs when agents can write, refactor, test, and document code in parallel, requiring new habits that embrace experimentation over conservative estimation.

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