According to Ishmeet Bindra on Hacker News, the economics of software development have shifted with AI-assisted coding. As AI tools make code rewrites faster and cheaper, the traditional code review process has become the more expensive option. Rather than having humans carefully review changes, developers increasingly ask their AI tools to regenerate entire sections—making the rewrite path more cost-effective than the review path. It's a subtle but significant inversion: what used to be the responsible choice—catching problems early through review—is now slower and costlier than simply rewriting.

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