In this essay, Carson Gross argues that as AI makes code cheap to produce, understanding code becomes the expensive and scarce resource. He warns of the complexity that LLM code can generate and proposes the subtractive, constraining engineer as the discipline needed to keep systems comprehensible & stable.
Erm, it’s not cheap…
Within the context of the article, I think it is completely fair to say that creating code is cheap compared to the cost of understanding that code.