Kolmogorov complexity is borderline useless if the idea is to describe code size or code complexity for humans, though. It only describes programs in terms of "

Kolmogorov complexity is borderline useless if the idea is to describe code size or code complexity for humans, though. It only describes programs in terms of "what is the smallest (fully qualified) program that would generate something that ultimately leads to the original result", completely removing both the human, as well as the original code in question, from the equation. And to make matters worse, we don't actually know how to calculate the true Kolmogorov complexity of anything because humans are notoriously bad at figuring out what "the smallest program" actually is, so it's a great device for reasoning about complexity, but it's a near useless device for determining actual complexity.