AI Era Turns Code Into Disposable Commodity

Google engineer rakyll and others observe that in the age of AI-assisted coding, code has become disposable—projects surviving a few weeks are seen as successes—and call on companies to disclose how much code they write and discard.

2026-09-15 ~ 2026-09-15 · 2 related posts

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