alternatively the code can go the way of "fast fashion" and even "3d-print your garments in the morning according to your feelings and weather and recycle at the end of the day".

If dealing with a functionality that is splittable into microfeatures/microservices, then anything that you need right now can potentially be vibe-coded, even on the fly (and deleted afterwards). Single-use code.

>But as time goes on your codebase has to mature, or else you end up using more and more resources on maintenance rather than innovation.

tremendous resource sink in enterprise software. Solving it, even if making it just avoidable - may be Anthropic goes that way and leads the others - would be a huge revolution.

>concentrating one gram of platinum from one ton of iron would be tremendously difficult, requiring a huge amount of energy.

melting one ton of iron requires 500KWh, 12 gallons of gasoline, less than $100 on Earth. Or 5 Tesla car batteries fully charged by say 30x30 m solar array in 2.5 hours - cost nothing in space once you got the hardware there. This is why mining in space is going to be a pretty big thing once/if we get cheap launch capability.