The actual act of typing code into a text editor and building it could be the least interesting and least valuable part of software development. A developer who sees their job as "writing code" or a company leader who sees engineers' jobs as "writing code" is totally missing where the value is created.

Yes, there is artistry, craftsmanship, and "beautiful code" which shouldn't be overlooked. But I believe that beautiful code comes from solid ideas, and that ugly code comes from flawed ideas. So, as long as the (human-constructed) idea is good, the code (whether it is human-typed or AI-generated) should end up beautiful.

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RunSet 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Raising the question: Where is the beautiful machine-generated code?

	▲	fragmede 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Where's the beautiful human generated code? There's the IOCCC but that's the only code comleo that's a competition based on the code itself, and it's not even a beauty pageant. There's some demo scene stuff, which is more of a golf thing. There's random one-offs, like not-Carmack's inverse square, or Duff's device, but other than that, where're the good code beauty pageants?

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glitchc 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Excellent point. Why are folks downvoting this?

	▲	grugagag 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Maybe they’re AIdiots?