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Surely satire right?
It makes sense to me… I use a very heavy framework that ensures my agent doesn’t lose context about the systems I develop. But that means every change goes through a big long pipeline and if all you want to do is change a few lines of code then maybe a junior dev is the right fit for that specific task?
Agentic coding would still have the context issues of changing code whether it’s AI or a human: somebody changed something, how do you record that for the next person. You either log it in memory or point it to the git PR, either way it needs to surface the changes.
So yeah, if AI is too expensive to code small problems for a given company than it’s too expensive for them period.
Try this I use it for all my projects. It’s a self documenting system that ensures context lives inside the module and has an mcp server that provides tooling for agents to read the intent tree.
https://aidemd.dev/
I’ve been developing this server for a couple weeks now, but the actual system has lived and evolved within my PKB for a couple months since I started using Claude.
Honestly, I doubt it's satire.
Remember that there are a ton of junior developers out of work thanks to AI bullshit, which means a lot of desperate people willing to take low salaries. Especially if they replaced a full time employee with a contractor or someone working remotely from, eg, India or the Philippines.
The limitation of 'simple code' makes me think it has to be a joke, since it's the opposite of usual expectations.
If it's too expensive for simple code, it's too expensive for all code.
To the extent it gets expensive, it's more likely with higher end code.