Consequently, the most enthusiastic proponents of generative AI promise that companies will be able to roll out products faster and cheaper than ever before. Soul of the machineAt some level every piece of software is entirely made up of a collection of source code. Source code exists merely as the projection of a more theoretical model for solving a problem. Perhaps unsurprisingly, defining the correct theoretical model is one of the most time-consuming and challenging parts of software development. Typically, the overall cost of a software system is dominated by long-term maintenance and updates, not the initial implementation.