Code Is Cheap(er)

There is no getting around the fact that, in the last year, code has gotten much cheaper to create. AI is able to generate reams and reams of code, often of reasonably decent quality, incredibly quickly. There is no point in pretending that this isn’t the case. At times, when confronted with this admittedly uncomfortable fact, I have seen people I respect say something like “coding was never the problem.” While I appreciate the sentiment, I don’t completely agree with that: certainly coding was at least par