[ivanbalepin]

by "maintainability" and "rarely remembered by the engineer" i'm assuming the bigger concern (beyond commenting and sane code) is once everyone starts producing tons of code without looking - and reading(reviewing) code is, to me at least, much harder than writing - then all of this goes unchecked:

* subtle footguns

* hallucinations

* things that were poorly or incompletely expressed in the prompt and ended up implemented incorrectly

* poor performance or security bugs

other things (probably correctable by fine-tuning the prompt and the context):

* lots of redundancy

* comments that are insulting to the intelligence (e.g., "here we instantiate a class")

* ...

not to mention reduced human understanding of the system and where it might break or how this implementation is likely to behave. All of this will come back to bite during maintenance.