when compiler appeared assembly programmers would complain all day how ugly and inneficient the generated code was

if you want to get the productivity gain you need to figure out how to solve the code review problem

Your solution is, "just ship worse code, it's probably fine"?

I think it's your standards that have fallen 90%…

I think there might be something here! a core of truth about what the future might hold. I cant take this approach right now though. Its not a good approach today.

But did the generated code do what you told it to do and was it deterministic? LLMs aren’t the same at all. That metaphor doesn’t work.