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qarl • today at 2:05 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

> It cost $20,000

I'm curious - do you have ANY idea what it costs to have humans write 100,000 lines of code???

You should look it up. :)

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bopbopbop7 • today at 2:17 AM

100k lines of clean, bug free, optimized, and vulnerability free code or 100k lines of outsourced slop? Two very different price points.

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sarchertech • today at 2:16 AM

You wouldn’t pay a human to write 100k LOC. Or at least you shouldn’t. You’d pay a human to write a working useful compiler that isn’t riddled with copyright issues.

If you didn’t care about copying code, usefulness, or correctness you could probably get a human to whip you up a C compiler for a lot less than $20k.

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