The point is that previously, changing code in a major way might take months of refactoring. Large changes were simply not contemplated unless they were justified by similarly large additional profit. Once you designed your architecture, you were pretty much stuck with it.
Now, the kinds of changes that were simply unrealistic before are now entirely realistic. A refactor/migration that would have taken 6 months before, you can now get a working version done in a day, and another few days of QA. That's what this post means -- code is no longer stone, it's clay. You can change it quickly in ways that were previous unimaginable.
This has nothing to do with the concept of code being liability or asset -- that's a totally separate conversation.
The point is that previously, changing code in a major way might take months of refactoring. Large changes were simply not contemplated unless they were justified by similarly large additional profit. Once you designed your architecture, you were pretty much stuck with it.
Now, the kinds of changes that were simply unrealistic before are now entirely realistic. A refactor/migration that would have taken 6 months before, you can now get a working version done in a day, and another few days of QA. That's what this post means -- code is no longer stone, it's clay. You can change it quickly in ways that were previous unimaginable.
This has nothing to do with the concept of code being liability or asset -- that's a totally separate conversation.