Cargo cults concerned me too but I realized that cargo-cult programming flourishes when it's enabled by a culture that doesn't care how the sausage is made. If

Cargo cults concerned me too but I realized that cargo-cult programming flourishes when it's enabled by a culture that doesn't care how the sausage is made. If the culture seeks full stack truth, it's not likely to get fooled by bad generated code, no matter whether it's generated by copy/paste, metaprogramming, or AI. I'd love to know what Donald Knuth thinks given the history of literate programming.