It's definitely helpful for search and summarisation.
In terms of prototyping, I can see the benefits but they're negated by the absurd amount of work it takes to get the code into more maintainable form.
I guess you can just do really heavy review throughout, but then you lose a lot of the speed gains.
That being said, putting a textual interface over everything is super cool, and will definitely have large downstream impacts, but probably not enough to justify all the spending.
In terms of prototyping, I can see the benefits but they're negated by the absurd amount of work it takes to get the code into more maintainable form.
I guess you can just do really heavy review throughout, but then you lose a lot of the speed gains.
That being said, putting a textual interface over everything is super cool, and will definitely have large downstream impacts, but probably not enough to justify all the spending.