[mcswell]

> LLMs do not bring us closer to literate programming...

Without saying that I agree with the person you're responding to, and without claiming to really know what he was saying, I'll say what I think he was suggesting: That a human could do the literate part of literate programming, and the LLM could do the computing part. When (inevitably) the LLM doesn't write bug-free code snippets, the human revises the literate part, followed by the LLM revising the code part.

And of course there would be a version control part of this, too, wherein both the changes to the literate part and the changes to the code parts are there side-by-side, as documentation of how the program evolved.