> Am I missing something?

lol. the original statement was that AI written code is a mess "under the hood"

And I tried to say - cars were "simple/fixable under the hood", then emissions made them a mess then some (specific) cars became simple/fixable again.

but my analogy wasn't clear, so I tried saying that computers went the same way.

started out with simple s-100 bus/pc with slots... but at some point they became no-user-servicable-parts-inside (per ifixit) but some have gotten servicable again.

in summary - I think AI can make a mess, but maybe AI can make clean/maintainable code someday.

maybe there will need to be an AIfixit.com to rate models.

Ah.

Yeah, I wasn't quite picking up what you were putting down. :) And I'd apologize for writing about old computers, except I enjoy writing about old computers. I never had much experience with S-100, though; my days of hands-in computing started with PCs in the 80s and I missed the earlier eras.

Anyway, I think you're right: The bot will continue to improve. It will get simpler to operate, and it will also generate cleaner code.

But with a twist: That generated code won't become cleaner because it makes it cheaper/easier for humans to understand and work on. Instead, it will instead get cleaner because it makes it cheaper/easier for bots to understand and work on.

(Why use many token when few do trick?)