[omnimus]

The metaphor doesn't work because all of the things mentioned have to be individually fabricated. But software doesn't. Copies are free. Thats the magic of software, you don't need much of it - you just need to be correct/smarter.

It's pretty surprising to see people on this site (assume mostly programmers) to think of code in terms of quantity. I always thought developers believe in less code the better.

[panarky]

You're unstated assumption is that machine-written code is lower quality than human-written code. That may be true for the top 5% of developers today.

But I didn't think that assumption is true for the median developer today, and it probably won't be true for the 5-percentile developer by this time next year.