Cheap code is changing how I debug

Do you remember when software was expensive to make? When you couldn’t just snap your fingers and make some code appear with a full test suite? Crafting code this way was hard, but it was rewarding. I would be so proud when my snippets of code all worked together to solve the problem at hand. No software lives forever, but I would have been sad if that code had to be thrown away. I spent time on it, I thought hard about it, and I made it exactly the way I thought it needed to be. But now, code is cheap. AI can generate code as fast as you can dream it up. The effort is trivial and the cost is laughable compared to the amount of time we used to spend writing code. We can take a moment of silence to be sad about this new reality of our precious craft… Sit with your sadness for a bit… Okay, the moment is over. Now that we got that out of the way, let’s talk about what this means for how we build software today. I’m going to drill into one area of change I’m excited about, which is that…