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by dns_snek 268 days ago
> As the economics change, how sustainable is the current cost/benefit equilibrium of high-quality code

"High quality code"? The standard today is "barely functional", if we lower the standards any further we will find ourselves debating how many crashes a day we're willing to live with, and whether we really care about weekly data loss caused by race conditions.

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And if that's what's economically beneficial then it shall be. Unfortunately.