Writing code got cheap but owning it did not
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Writing Code Got Cheap. Owning It Didn't.

An agent built a genuinely hard part of our product: a tender-document ingestion pipeline with a job queue, retries, multi-format parsing and embeddings for search. I didn't write a line. Owning it, reviewing it hard enough to trust it, was the cost AI didn't make cheaper.

By Sami · 06.07.2026