"they don’t produce useful layers of abstraction nor meaningful modularization. They don’t value conciseness or improving organization in a large code base. We have automated coding, but not software engineering"

Which frankly describes pretty much all real world commercial software projects I've been on, too.

Software engineering hasn't happened yet. Agents produce big balls of mud because we do, too.

which is why the most famous book in the world of software development pointed out that the long term success of a software project is not defined by man hours or lines of code written but by documentation, clear interfaces and the capacity to manage the complexity of a project.

Maybe they need to start handing out copies of the mythical man month again because people seem to be oblivious to insights we already had a few decades ago