alt Hacker News“ the code itself becomes an artifact of synthesis, not the locus of intent.”
would not be unfamiliar to mechanical engineers who work with CAD. The ‘Histories’ (successive line-by-line drawing operations - align to spline of such-and-such dimensions, put a bevel here, put a hole there) in many CAD tools are known to be a reflection of design intent moreso than the final 3D model that the operations ultimately produce.
CAD tools also really don't like changes in the history. A tiny change in one step can corrupt the entire model, because a subsequent step can no longer properly "attach" to a reference point which no longer exists.
Fixing this in CAD is already a massive pain, fixing it with black-box LLMs sounds nearly impossible.