alt Hacker News> Technical details aside, this volume is ridiculous. How on earth do they see this kind of "growth" as an asset and not a liability?
That coding volume is a liability only for human engineers, with their limited memory, short attention span, tiredness, and quirky coding preferences. LLMs don't have any of those problems.
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Not necessarily. High LoC software is a potential bad design smell (without a counterfactual for the same level of functionality it might not be easy to tell though). Badly designed code entering an agent context is always a liability, because it contaminates decisions down the road, and makes new work slower as it needs more tokens to process and navigate old code.
Sure, but you also don't know what your LLM is doing without running into these same limitations. So how is this an improvement?
Every bit of code is more context getting soaked up in future agent runs. More context used = worse output. More tests need to be written, then fixed, using up more compute, time and context without adding value compared to a more thoughtful, efficient implementation.