LLMs generate more code yes.

I generate more beautiful code, yes.

But the longer the codebase survives the more hair and cruft it accumulates. My once beautiful logical paths get carved up by compounding requirements and edge cases.

That's what the AI was trained on. The end result - the hairy ball of wax that noone can look at sideways.

I often think of that whenever AI comes up with what I consider to be an irrational but plausible edge case.