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by Palomides 328 days ago
if development cost trends to zero but maintenance requires expertise, there will be no maintenance, all code will be thrown out ASAP
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How will this work for users that depend on the software, and businesses that depend on the revenue from those users?
You vibe code a new release with all the previous context plus "fix also this bug".
a mixture of ossification if something mostly works, and a constantly shifting morass for the rest

so somewhat worse than what we have now