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Generative what? Code is not a thing anymore, in fact it never really was, but now it's definitely not. Code today can be as verbose and ugly as ever, because from here on out, fewer people are going to read it, understand and care about it. What's valuable, and you know this I think, is how much money your software will sell for, not how fine and polished your code is. Code was a liability. Today it's a liability th…
and once you've got your wish: ugly code without tests or a way to comprehend it, but cheap! How much value are you going to be able to extract over its lifetime once your customers want to see some additional features or improvements? How much expensive maintenance burden are you incurring once any change (human or LLM generated) is likely to introduce bugs you have no better way of identifying than shipping to your…
The whole thing reminds me a bit of the many RAD tools that were supposed to 'solve' programming. While it was easy to start and produce something with those tools, at some point you started spending way too much time working around the limitations and wished you started from scratch without it.