We’ve been conditioned to believe that building complex software requires an army of developers or AI writing millions of lines of code. We celebrate “lines of code” as a metric of progress, but in reality, every line of hand-written code is a future liability. It is a debt that must be serviced through debugging, refactoring, and eventual migration.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.mdriven.net/software-modeling-reclaim-development-time/