Writing code used to be free, anyone could do it with enough patience and knowledge, but now you have to pay hundreds of dollars to do this kind of thing with agents. It seems the barrier to entry has gotten more expensive.
e.g. I can ride a bike for free compared to driving a car where I have to pay for gas.
And their are pros and cons to both.
e.g. bikes are easier to park but not great in bad weather and vice versa
In a car world, riding a bike is free but acquiring a bike is incredibly expensive because they are not mass produced and are instead a luxury that rich people pay for to get a single bike manufactured for them.
The equivalent is that in the future, most open source dies, and the little open source software that remains is low-level, systems critical. And so, if you want to write code, you must first use an LLM to make you a compiler for your desired language that works in [insert future pc architecture] as any of the old 2026 era compilers stopped working decades ago. If you don't have enough tokens for that, tough luck.