[_1tem]

This is not just for LLM code. This is for any code that is written by anyone except yourself. A new engineer at Google, for example, cannot hit the ground running and make significant changes to the Google algorithm without months of "comprehension debt" to pay off.

However, code that is well-designed by humans tends to be easier to understand than LLM spaghetti.

[carlmr]

>However, code that is well-designed by humans tends to be easier to understand than LLM spaghetti.

Additionally you may have institutional knowledge accessible. I can ask a human and they can explain what they did. I can ask an LLM, too and they will give me a plausible-sounding explanation of what they did.

[ToValueFunfetti]

I can't speak for others, but if you ask me about code I wrote >6 months ago, you'll also be stuck with a plausible-sounding explanation. I'll have a better answer than the LLM, but it will be because I am better at generating plausible-sounding explanations for my behavior, not because I can remember my thought processes for months.