> It matters because ugly code is probably also slow code This is a very bad assumption, that's highly dependent on subjective and overly-broad terms like "ugl

> It matters because ugly code is probably also slow code This is a very bad assumption, that's highly dependent on subjective and overly-broad terms like "ugly" and "slow". Optimized assembly code is ugly, but it's also probably faster than what a human would choose to write. Linguists used to have this human-understandably-sized set of speech units called phonemes. Once we abandoned those for finer-grained pieces that were too many and complicated for a human to grasp, speech recognition got better. Understandable by a human may be a fundamental limitation on the power of our models.