Coding Agents Underestimate the Cost of Code They Own
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Coding agents tend to write custom code where established libraries would serve better, and the author argues this hidden maintenance cost goes unmeasured. Drawing on experience building an enterprise 3D platform with Claude, the author found repeated replacements of custom fetching, viewer and form code with mature libraries.