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If generating is cheap, rewriting is cheap too. Build fast, throw it away, rebuild. Why should anyone care about architectural debt in a world where an agent can regenerate a service in an afternoon?

Because code is the disposable part, and code is not what accumulates. What accumulates is state.

- The data your systems have already written and that other systems now depend on.
- The integrations other teams built against your interface while you were not looking.
- The contractual and regulatory obligations attached to where that data sits, how it moves, and how its lineage is established.
- The operating processes built around the system, and the habits of ten thousand users who depend on it behaving a particular way.

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