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An AI coding agent, used to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs

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A graph showing the effects of maintenance costs on a project over time. The horizontal axis shows months, from zero to 120, and the vertical axis shows the percent of time spent on value-add work, from zero to 100. A thick blue line on the graph, labelled “normal,” starts at 100% and quickly drops.

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The reporter will get straight to the point: your AI coding agent, the one you use to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs. Not by a little bit, either. You write code twice as quick now? Every line of code you write has to be maintained: bug fixes, cleanup, dependency upgrades, and so forth. Let’s say you asked a crowd of, say, 50 developers what those maintenance costs were. Your crowd might tell you that, for each month you spend writing code, you’ll spend.

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