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Programmers Were the Compiler Aug 10, 2026
Senko Rašić is right that coding was genuinely hard, and wrong to conclude much from it. Historical difficulty tells you what was scarce when humans had to do the translating, not what stays scarce once machines can do it. The evidence from Anthropic, METR, DORA and Thoughtworks points the same way: implementation is getting cheap, and specification, verification and ownership are what is left to be expensive.
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