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Original: https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/code-is-cheap/
Status: generated
Summary
A chapter from a guide to agentic engineering patterns arguing that coding agents have collapsed the cost of writing code while leaving the cost of producing good code largely intact. It enumerates nine properties it means by good code, argues that engineering habits built around code being expensive no longer hold, and offers one concrete habit: when instinct says something is not worth the time, fire off a prompt anyway in an asynchronous session.