When you are building a reasonable software project (10k to 300k LOC), the actual generation of code is not a significant cost. If code generation were the true bottleneck, a 300k LOC project worth $50 million would take no more than 1–3 work-years to produce, even without AI. You could hire quality code monkey from India for $15 to $40/hour and get it done with less than $250,000.
The cost of management does not approach zero when you have Microsoft Exel.
When you are building a reasonable software project (10k to 300k LOC), the actual generation of code is not a significant cost. If code generation were the true bottleneck, a 300k LOC project worth $50 million would take no more than 1–3 work-years to produce, even without AI. You could hire quality code monkey from India for $15 to $40/hour and get it done with less than $250,000.
The cost of management does not approach zero when you have Microsoft Exel.
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