The convincing number isn't 40-50x, it's 350k LOC that never became a morass — the hands-off version died at 60k twice. Does the up-front spec work get cheape

The convincing number isn't 40-50x, it's 350k LOC that never became a morass — the hands-off version died at 60k twice. Does the up-front spec work get cheaper as the codebase grows, or heavier?