@holothuroid It’s not that this is cheap: text-work, testing, getting stuff robust, ... are real work and cost money.
But they cost far less than the billions of dollars AI already ate.
JetBrains has 10 billion in yearly revenue and they build a full IDE and other tools for many languages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JetBrains
That’s just a quarter of the yearly investment into AI startups (most of which are expected to fail):
https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/torrid-funding-pace-googl-xai-q3-2024/