[namaria]

Efficient exists on multiple dimensions. Generating software quickly and cost effectively is just one of them. Maintaining, adding features and managing security liabilities also factor into that overall efficiency. And the ability to managing this maintenance, growth and security concerns depends on the continued ability to reason about any facet of the software that might become relevant - something that programmers writing code have shown to be capable of, but LLMs generating text continuations that contain code have not.