Cheap Code, Costly Judgment: A Case Study on Governable Agentic Software Engineering

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This case study (2607.01087, published 2026-07-01) argues that with agentic coding, writing code is now cheap while judgment and governance are the expensive, scarce inputs — and examines how to make agentic software engineering governable. It maps closely to the practitioner thesis that orchestration and taste, not code volume, are the new bottleneck.