Posted on Nov 29, 2025

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We need to talk about the bill.

Right now, the tech industry is enjoying an all-you-can-eat buffet of free code. You want a landing page? Here is the HTML. You want a Python script to scrape emails? Done in seconds. It feels like we have unlocked a cheat code for productivity.

But as any senior developer will tell you, there is no such thing as free code.