Code Is Free, Delivery Isn't // AIDRAN

The post that framed this moment did not need wide distribution to be consequential ^[14]. Its value is structural: it states what practitioners have been experiencing for months without a clean formulation. Code generation is fast, cheap, and nearly universal among professional developers. What has not changed is the time from idea to production — not because engineers are slow, but because the constraints that govern delivery are upstream of code. Alignment between product and engineering, review processes built for human-written diffs, deployment confidence in AI-generated output — these are…

Code Is Free. Software Is Still Expensive. Nothing Changed.

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