> How much time do you spend surfing through your .o or .obj files today?

Those are not the source of truth for the application logic. But the higher level code is.

The application code describes the behavior of the program and the compiler translates it into a different representation following a set of known, deterministic rules. This is unlike an LLM producing code from a prompt, which is why the source code is still the source of truth, and not a bunch of prompts.

Determinism is something you'll have to give up if you want to stay employed, I'm afraid.

The solution, as usual in engineering, is negative feedback. Unfortunately, many people around here think that means "Shoot the messenger."