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AI Wrote Half My Codebase. The Maintenance Bill Showed Up in Month Three.
Community description: AI made the first draft free. I treated that as the win. The bill arrived later, not in dollars, in...
Dev.to | Sep 15, 2026 | Debashish Ghosal
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You wrote code, you reviewed code, you maintained code, and those costs were in the same order of magnitude. Debugging generated code, including your own. Almost none are measuring ownership cost.
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