[smlacy]

I like the analogy but which 2 is AI coding?

Fast & Cheap (but not Good?) - I wouldn't really say that AI coding is "cheap"

Cheap & Good (but not Fast) - Again, not really "cheap"

Fast & Good (but not Cheap) - This seems like maybe where we're at? Is this a bad place?

[ambicapter]

The proper idiom is "You can only pick two". It doesn't say that everything is two of them, or even one.

[flaterkk]

It's hitting all three, right _now_.

Eventually, it will be just Fast and Good. It won't be cheap, as companies start moving towards profitability.

Remember when Uber was super cheap? I do. They're fast and good though.

[bigstrat2003]

It's not cheap or good, it's just fast.

[jsLavaGoat]

It's fast. It's cheap compared to employees. It's really the latter that people are upset about.

As for good. Well, how much software is really good? A lot of it is sewn together APIs and electron-like runtimes and 5,000 dependencies someone else wrote. Not exactly hand-crafted and artisanal.

I'm sure everyone here's projects are the exception, but engineering is always about meeting the design requirements. Either it does or it doesn't.