Debate: will AI coding agents let every company build its own data systems and cut compute bills?
vboykis · x · 2026-10-18
shreya argues big data systems are being "unbundled" — AI coding agents could enable every company to build its own data systems and significantly cut compute bills. vboykis pushes back that it's company-size dependent: with 10-100 engineers needing to ship features, you probably won't rewrite battle-tested distributed systems from first principles.
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