[intrinsicallee]

Excel, visual "programming" lo/no code environments, and Factorio itself are all examples of this fallacy: making it easier to build complex symbolic systems doesn't help people learn how to manage that complexity; it in fact enables them to produce overtly complex systems that become hard to extend, to maintain and to debug.

That is precisely the source of my skepticism regarding the use of LLMs to code. What benefits most programmers, teams and organizations in building and manage complex systems is discipline. Disciplined work produces systems that are relatively easy to represent and reason about, and the shallow lesson people take is that easy representation is a silver bullet.

People keep falling for that trap over and over again. Understanding it deeply can provide lots of great opportunity for interesting work though.