> Code has always been expensive. Producing a few hundred lines of clean, tested code takes most software developers a full day or more. Many of our engineering habits, at both the macro and micro level, are built around this core constraint.

> ...

> Writing good code remains significantly more expensive

I think this is a bad argument. Code was expensive because you were trying to write the expensive good code in the first place.

When you drop your standards, then writing generated code is quick, easy and cheap. Unless you're willing to change your standard, getting it back to "good code" is still an equivalent effort.

There are alternative ways to define the argument for agentic coding, this is just a really really bad argument to kick it off.