Comment by phamilton

The cost of restructuring has also gone down.

The cost of shoring up behavior with tests ahead of a restructure has gone down because of AI.

The cost of implementing a zero downtime migration has gone down because of AI.

A big part of the rust hype has been the low cost of restructuring within an application, even before AI. And now even more so.

The opportunity cost of not being able to safely restructure has gone up substantially.

This is the number one thing I optimize for now: the ability to quickly and safely change significant parts of the code and product.