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Re:AI's Affordability Crisis by skydhash on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @07:22AM (#48658103)
> I'm a contractor. On my most recent client, I was able to learn a completely new domain and business, design a solution and build a full stack POC (a complicated one with technologies I had never used before) nearly singlehandedly in less than 2 months

But did you do it well? It’s not a snack, but a question based on general observation that every is praising the process, but no comment on the outcome.

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Re:AI's Affordability Crisis by HDThoreaun on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @01:47PM (#48663327)
Who cares? The business paid. Software engineers often overestimate how much businesses care about doing a job well vs quickly/cheaply
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Re:AI's Affordability Crisis by skydhash on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @04:44PM (#48665384)
> Who cares?

The future scapegoat, aka maintainer.

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Re:AI's Affordability Crisis by whattheheckheck on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @07:51PM (#48666959)
More agents!
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Re:AI's Affordability Crisis by thisoneisreal on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @06:12PM (#48666229)
I think I've done a good job straddling the delivery/maintainability line thus far. In the near future I'm likely going to have to downshift into smaller, higher quality changes and refactors, but I've been careful to keep an eye on the output and make sure the functions are reasonably scoped, documented, and understandable. I don't anticipate any issues maintaining what I've produced so far, but it could easily get out of hand as more concepts get mixed in.
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