Quoting Charity Majors

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Charity Majors discusses how AI flipped the economics of code production, making code generation cheap and instant, transforming code from a treasured asset into a disposable, regenerable resource.

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# A quote from Charity Majors Source: [https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/17/charity-majors/](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/17/charity-majors/) 17th June 2026 > What happened in 2025 was this:**the economics of code production were turned upside down**\. Instead of being very hard, time\-consuming, and expensive to generate code, it became effectively free and instant\. Lines of code went from being treasured, reused, cared for and carefully curated, to being disposable and regenerable, practically overnight\. —[Charity Majors](https://charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-demands-more-engineering-discipline#footnote-2),AI demands more engineering discipline\. Not less Posted[17th June 2026](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/17/)at 5:12 pm ## Recent articles - [Publishing WASM wheels to PyPI for use with Pyodide](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/13/publishing-wasm-wheels/)\- 13th June 2026 - [Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/11/fable-is-relentlessly-proactive/)\- 11th June 2026 - [Initial impressions of Claude Fable 5](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/9/claude-fable-5/)\- 9th June 2026 This is a**quotation**collected by Simon Willison, posted on[17th June 2026](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/17/)\. [ai2,078](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai/)[charity\-majors9](https://simonwillison.net/tags/charity-majors/)[generative\-ai1,835](https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai/)[llms1,803](https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms/)[ai\-assisted\-programming389](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-assisted-programming/)

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