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damnitbuilds 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic codi...

"review is a recurring cost which you pay on every new PR, whereas writing code is a cost you pay once."

Huh ? Every new PR is new code which is a new cost ?

swiftcoder 5 months ago [–]

> Every new PR is new code which is a new cost ?

Every new PR interacts with existing code, and the complexity of those interactions increases steadily over time

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