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by Terr_ 452 days ago
> Yes, and that mattered when you had to hand-type everything. But when AI can generate either version in milliseconds, the value proposition shifts dramatically.

This seems to assume nobody ever has to debug or maintain the code afterwards.

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He does say "If both are equally easy to create, why choose the less readable one?" which seems like a nod toward maintainability.