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Programming Deflation


When Code Gets Cheaper Every Day

Let’s take as a given that augmented coding is steadily reducing the cost, skill barriers, and time needed to develop software. Traditional deflation is destructive because it reflects economic weakness—falling demand, broken confidence, shrinking money supply. If cheap tools create an explosion of new programmers, these skills separate signal from noise even more than they did a year ago.

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