Yes I meant delivering value ofc, and I love the framing you propose, so my question is: are we already at the point where we could go safely faster, if we didn’t look at the code?

I think it’s a maturity model question, and an individual ability question. And maybe an industry tooling question.

Individual ability? Newer engineers should read and write more code than experienced engineers.

Maturity model? Teams with better access to objective specifications can read less code than teams without it. Teams with more experience with building loops and validation frameworks the same.

Industry tooling? I think we need more work on the spec driven development front. Some set of standards as to how we define contracts that LLMs can operate against that are more deterministic.