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weitendorfyesterday at 6:21 AM0 repliesview on HN

It does matter because the code needs to still be legible and discoverable and semantic enough for other AI to find it and use it without it being so confusing or painful that they prefer to just write it themselves.

The reason software is so valuable is that it's capital/up-front investment in figuring something out that can continuously deliver value with low or no marginal cost. Rewriting/maintenance/difficulty/figuring out software is marginal cost.