Yacine: code is a liability — make AI write as little as possible
kalin_t · x · 2026-10-15
Yacine MTB argues he won't have LLMs output 100k lines of code: 'code is literally useless, a liability — more code is worse overall', and the goal is solving problems with the least code possible. kalint pushes back that game codebases are typically >100k–1M LOC and hard to shrink. A debate on minimal-code workflows vs. large legacy codebases in the AI era.
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