What happened in 2025 was this:
the economics of code production were turned upside down. Instead of being very hard, time-consuming, and expensive to generate code, it became effectively free and instant. Lines of code went from being treasured, reused, cared for and carefully curated, to being disposable and regenerable, practically overnight.
— [Charity Majors](https://charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-demands-more-engineering-discipline#footnote-2), AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less
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Quoting Georgi Gerganov
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