Was everyone collectively lying over the past fifty years of software development when they repeatedly said more != better?

For specific use cases, performance and security and all sorts of tuning it could be truly amazing. But maybe loops should be like a tool we make a choice to use when optimal.

I just wonder if in the future we’ll come to realize that we don’t have to throw the baby out with the bath water. That you can take a beat to understand your code and do change management, and choose the right tool for the job, and curate and say no and have agency.

An observation might be - no one writes code like Google “you’re not google” is something that gets thrown around in software shops all the time. Why is it we all think we’re going to be writing code like Anthropic?