AI coding agents have dramatically reduced the cost of writing code, disrupting long-held engineering intuitions about trade-offs in planning, refactoring, testing, and documentation. While generating code is now nearly free, producing *good* code—correct, tested, documented, maintainable, and secure—still carries significant

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Good code still has a costWe need to build new habits
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