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Laurie Voss, via Simon Willison: the cost of reviewing and operating code is collapsing next, and what's left is finding out what people want
Simon Willison quoted Laurie Voss on 2026-09-14 arguing that the collapse in the cost of writing code is now propagating to reviewing, fixing and operating it, and assuming it completes. The residual work Voss identifies is finding out what people actually want, which reframes the current 'review is the bottleneck' consensus as a temporary stop rather than a stable equilibrium. Single-source and opinion rather than data, but it is the sharpest counter to the review-bottleneck framing that has dominated this beat for weeks.
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