Software Maintenance
topic on 2 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes
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Big Technology
3 statements about Software Maintenance, every show
Bret Taylor: Software cost is maintenance, not building
“Most of the cost of software is in maintaining it, not building it. And that's why most people would prefer to buy a solution off the shelf because you want to amortize the cost of maintaining software among thousands of clients and not have everyone bear it.”
Marcus: AI coding assistants regurgitate public code but cannot debug software
“That's their sweet spot is regurgitation. And so Yeah, they can build the stuff that's out there, but if you want to code things in the real world, you usually want to code something that's new, and these systems have a lot of problems with that. And another r…”