Jevons Paradox Archive - Hey-GPT.de - Daily GenAI News Digest

Every time we've made it easier to write software, we've ended up writing exponentially more of it. When high-level languages replaced assembly, programmers didn't write less code - they wrote orders of magnitude more, tackling problems that would have been economically impossible before. When frameworks abstracted away the plumbing, we didn't reduce our output - we built more ambitious applications. When cloud platforms eliminated infrastructure management, we didn't scale

29. Dezember 2025

GenAI Updates

Every time we’ve made it easier to write software, we’ve ended up writing exponentially more of it.

Addy Osmani argues that every time writing software gets easier, people end up building vastly…