Most of the code the world runs on is maintained by hobbyists with an hour or two a month, so any proposal that needs more than that will simply be ignored.

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• The case for sweating every line of code was premised on humans doing the modifications, and it now survives only because tokens are scarce. DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson26 Aug 2026similar wording
• Working with coding agents is exhausting rather than deskilling, and that exhaustion — not the technology — is what limits how many projects one engineer can run at once. SWSimon Willison19 Mar 2026similar wording
• A few hundred dollars a month is nothing to a company and transformative to a project, so engineers should be the ones asking their employers to pay it. DDDrew DeVault22 Aug 2018similar wording
• Letting non-programmers build their own unmaintainable software is still a large step forward, because the alternative was a thousand-page requirements document and an eight-year wait. KBKent Beck1 Jul 2026similar wording
• It is no longer worth not reading the code in exchange for the occasional two-week hand fix, because the volume of code we can now generate has gone up ten to a hundred times. DHDex Horthy15 Jul 2026similar wording

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