Mark Downie

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My thoughts on software development, technology and design, and the various ways they intersect with our culture.

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What we lost the last time code got cheap

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The outsourcing era showed that making code cheaper moves the real cost from production to comprehension. AI-generated code makes that problem more acute. ...