alt Hacker NewsThe "lines of code" at this point are basically the same thing as binary code that comes out of a compiler - something you almost never look at and certainly won't try to touch by hand.
The actual "code" is everything driving the harness.
The current problem for this is that the harness is not (yet) deterministic, so it's sort of like having a compiler where your output program works slightly differently every build, and then the compiler tries to just patch the binary programs when you recompile to minimise this problem, or even worse, disassembles the whole thing to figure out what it does, makes the chance, and then recompiles it.
I think the telling part is in this line:
> Because the repository is entirely agent-generated, it’s optimized first for Codex’s legibility
I asked a question from a perspective of a human engineer, as in, I will have to read the code and understand, fix it once it breaks. OpenAI approach is opposite, even if it is breaking it is the agent that will be doing the fixing, millions of lines and inelegant designs don't matter because human readability doesn't matter. In any case you use more tokens so you fork over more money.
I will say, however, that IMHO there is objectively bad and good code in terms what it can do and performance, if I can do the same thing in 50 lines as opposed to 1000 lines, this difference still matters for the model. Smaller context usage, better approach that informs downstream generation.