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Every single line of code is a maintenance cost, a liability, a velocity cost, and a stability risk.
The software industry knows this. Even Bill Gates famously proclaimed it.
Yet we now allow "it generated so much code!!!" to be told as success stories. Fuck you Sam Altman, Microsoft, and Anthropic for damaging both my industry and its reputation.