Shipping a full complex iOS app now costs $20 as frontier models cut engineering 10-100x
bindureddy · x · 2026-09-23
Builder Bindu Reddy observes that top frontier models now require 10-100x less engineering bandwidth than before, and the combined cost of frontier AI plus human intelligence is still far lower than cheap AI plus expensive human labor. His headline number: shipping a fully functional, complex iOS app is down to about $20.
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