I think you mean to say, "code you don't understand is a liability, not an asset"

But please correct me if I'm wrong.

No I said what I meant. Code is a liability, though to your point, code you don't understand is an even bigger liability.

Even if I understand all my code, when I go to make changes, if it's 100k lines of code vs 2k lines of code, it's going to take more time and be more error prone.

Even if I understand all my code, the intern I hired last week won't and I'll have to teach it to them.

Even if I understand all my code, I don't remember everything all the time and I can forget about an edge case handed in thousands of lines of code.

Even if I understand all my code, I don't understand my co-workers code, and they don't understand mine.

Even if I understand all my code, I might not want to work for this company the rest of my life.

	▲	leptons 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I've worked at so many places in my career that "not understanding code" is not an excuse. It is a skill to be able to read and follow code and get up to speed quickly, even on shit codebases. But "AI" generated code makes that so much more difficult, and the "AI" isn't going to walk you through it, and neither will your new coworkers. We aren't in a race to the bottom with "AI", we're in a speedrun to the bottom, and I don't think it's going to end up going too well for whatever developers are left in a few years.