Does Code Readability Still Matter When Claude Writes Most of Your Code?
Ordinary-Scratch-120 · reddit · 2026-09-25
A scientific-software developer says that after adopting Claude he no longer reads most generated code line by line — he just checks overall logic. Colleagues keep asking in PR reviews whether the code will be understandable in a year, and he admits it probably won't.
The post sparks debate: if LLMs write and maintain most code, should we optimize for machine readability instead of human readability — and will anyone still read code a year from now?
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