https://amanverma.dev/tags/engineering/Recent content in Engineering on Aman VermaHugoen-usTue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0530https://amanverma.dev/posts/cheap-to-build-expensive-to-own/Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0530https://amanverma.dev/posts/cheap-to-build-expensive-to-own/<p>I think we&rsquo;re going to build a lot of things we don&rsquo;t need, simply because we can get an agent to do them quickly.</p> <p>A feature that needs weeks of work usually gets a discussion about whether it&rsquo;s worth doing. A working prototype can make that discussion feel unnecessary. Once the code is there, keeping it starts to seem like the obvious choice.</p> <p>Suppose agents get good enough that maintenance becomes cheap too. They fix the bugs, keep the docs correct, and handle the awkward cases.</p>