Coding got cheap, but the friction we removed was doing useful cognitive work
charles_irl · x · 2026-10-27
Aymen Nadeem argues that when writing code was expensive, the act forced you to confront your assumptions beforehand. Now it's easy to go from a vague idea to implementation without a clear opinion, at the cost of premature commitment to unevaluated ideas and false confidence from working code. Some of the removed friction was doing useful cognitive work.
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