[rphv]

"Readability by humans" may no longer be as important as it once was.

[lionkor]

Maybe it would benefit Anthropic if AI generated code worked, but wasn't readable by humans. That's a nice moat.

[seanw444]

Proprietary stochastic compilers. Hooray.

[selcuka]

Good variable names are still useful for LLMs to understand context when refactoring.

[rafram]

LLMs are already bad at reusing existing logic/resources/components, even when they have obvious names. Unreadable code only makes it worse.

[orphea]

Only if LLMs will start to output object code, skipping text representation.