Cost YAGNI Was Never About
code can be cheap to generate and still expensive to commit to
What it is: X post by Bilgin Ibryam pointing to Kent Beck’s “The Cost YAGNI Was Never About”
Gist: YAGNI is about timing and option value, not code-writing thrift; AI codegen lowers typing cost but increases the risk of speculative structure nobody deeply understands
Newsletter angle: code can be cheap to generate and still expensive to commit to
Retrieval note: article text recovered directly from Kent Beck’s newsletter page