@da_667 @eniko And some of us can also "smell" that rot, even if we can't definitively identify why. I've read enough of "other people's code" that I can generally 'see' approximately what they were thinking when they wrote it. LLM-extruded code is just as 'soulless' as normal text, and I'm still not exactly sure how, but I can feel that there's "something missing." Even the worst human-written stuff has that 'soul' to it that I can feel, and I was a CS tutor for my entire time in college, so I've seen some pretty bad code... "The lights are on, but nobody's home" is a fitting description for how it feels to me. It feels hollow more than anything else, even if it "works" in the loosest sense of the word.