[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":38},["ShallowReactive",2],{"page:blog-slug:en:insight-code-is-getting-cheaper":3},{"order":4,"postTopCategoryName":5,"componentName":6,"publishDate":7,"dateChanged":7,"ratings":8,"ratingAmount":8,"ratingAverage":8,"ratingOwn":8,"files":9,"videos":10,"documents":11,"postTexts":12,"questions":22,"noIndex":23,"alternates":24,"distance":8,"effectiveStatus":35,"effectiveAudience":8,"listed":36,"uuid":37},10002,"blog","insight-code-cheaper-domain-not","2026-05-12T15:18:00",0,[],[],[],[13],{"locale":14,"header":15,"contentShort":16,"content":15,"contentHTML":17,"slug":18,"metaTitle":19,"metaDescription":20,"focusKeyword":21},"en","Code is getting cheaper. Domain knowledge isn’t.","Coding agents cut the cost of implementation dramatically. What becomes more valuable is what they do not deliver: the right model of the problem.","\u003Cp>Anyone working with coding agents today experiences something unfamiliar: implementation is rarely the bottleneck any more. A form, an API, a report – what used to take days is done in hours. That changes what matters in software projects.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Ch2>What is unambiguous is cheap\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cp>An agent is excellent at implementing a clearly described task. It is poor at noticing that the task is described wrongly. It builds the invoice with a discount as requested – and does not ask whether the discount applies before or after tax, whether it turns negative on a credit note, or whether it may still be changed after finalisation.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Those are not programming questions. They are questions about the domain. And their answers decide whether the software holds up in daily use or gets rewritten three months later.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Ch2>The model is the product\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cp>The cheaper code becomes, the more value shifts to what comes before the code: the terms, the states, the rules, the exceptions. A good domain model makes implementation cheap because every task becomes unambiguous. A bad one makes it expensive no matter how fast the agent types – it simply builds the wrong thing quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>That is why I spend surprisingly little time on technology at the start of a project. I want to understand how a process really works, not how it is written in the manual: where the exceptions are, which figures must be traceable, who is allowed to decide what.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Ch2>What follows\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cp>For companies, it means their own domain knowledge is worth more than ever – provided it can be made precise. For developers, it means the ability to understand a problem and model it cleanly becomes the core skill. Syntax was never the hard part. Now it is just easier to see.\u003C\u002Fp>","insight-code-is-getting-cheaper","Coding agents: code is cheaper, domain knowledge isn't","Coding agents cut the cost of implementation dramatically. What gains value is what they do not deliver: the right model of the problem.","coding agents",[],false,[25,28,29,32],{"locale":26,"slug":27},"de","insight-code-wird-billiger",{"locale":14,"slug":18},{"locale":30,"slug":31},"fr","insight-le-code-devient-moins-cher",{"locale":33,"slug":34},"it","insight-il-codice-costa-meno",1,true,"6740f6ad-b3d0-4ada-ab6d-f53ddba23092",1792250830963]