Development That Isn't Cheap

There was a time when, if you were good with a few clever workarounds, you could build things (somewhat) cheaply. These days, though, I see no way to keep up with productivity without AI, so we’ve entered an era where we grudgingly have no choice but to pay up for Codex, Claude, and the like.

Even I, the guy who claims to do “cheap development,” have at least 100,000 won a month leaving my bank account for personal development infrastructure. That says it all.

One era has come to an end. We’ve entered a time when, without AI, we can no longer do cottage-industry development, digging through that tedious pile of code and fixing it piece by piece by hand. For us, isn’t what really matters now not smart code, but economical development?

Yahum’s Cheap Development. This first story is just me venting. From the next one on, I’ll start sharing the coding stories I’ve wanted to share but never got around to.