I think it’s funny that we’re all measuring lines of code now and smiling.
It was/is expensive because engineers are trying to manage the liability exposure of their employers.
Agents give us a fire hose of tech debt that anyone can point at production.
I don’t think the tool itself is bad. But I do think people need to reconsider claims like this and be more careful about building systems where an unaccountable program can rewrite half your code base poorly and push it to production without any guard rails.