This cost, which somehow nobody wants to talk about, is an erosion of the foundation of our society. Faster code generation is simply not worth this cost. What's worse, it's self-defeating: A generation educated by generative models will be ill equipped to build new things.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/to-teach-in-the-time-of-chatgpt-is-to-know-pain/