The case for sweating every line of code was premised on humans doing the modifications, and it now survives only because tokens are scarce.
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26 Aug 2026
David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsThat was premised on humans doing the modifications. I think it is an open question to which degree this still matters. Now, it does matter, and the reason I say that, at least for the moment, is that tokens are still scarce. At this moment in time, we are all token limited.