Comment by luma
5 months ago
If automated AI rewrites are generally feasible, then the marginal price of nearly all software trends to zero.
5 months ago
If automated AI rewrites are generally feasible, then the marginal price of nearly all software trends to zero.
If code becomes essentially free (ignoring for a moment the environmental cost or the long term cost of allowing code generation to be tollboothed by AI megacorps) the value of code must lie in its track record.
The 5-day-old code in chardet has little to no value. The battle-tested years-old code that was casually flushed away to make room for it had value.