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AI Made Understanding and Generation Cheap

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Core insight of Tomas's 'rethink modularity' talk. Pattern recognition (code understanding) and pattern reproduction (code generation) were expensive — the whole history of modularity (macros, subroutines, modules, OOP, FP, microservices) was motivated by making those cheaper. AI has driven both to near-zero. What is still expensive: human code review, shipping (staging + production + restarts), reverting, and — most expensively — downtime and the associated user trust loss. Modularity decisions should be justified by how they improve the still-expensive activities, not the ones AI already solved.

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wroclove.rb 2026 Lightning Talks 2026-04-22 08:41