Hardware is cheaper than programmers

Maybe one day that will change

Thanks to AI driven scarcity of hardware it's already coming true.

Idk. What are these programmers doing afterwards? Build more shoddy code? Perhaps it's a better idea to focus on what's necessary and not run from feature to feature at top speed. This might require some rethinking in the finance department, though.

If writing thin code doesn't pay the bills then programmers will write thick code to eat tomorrow.