> so ease of maintainability/reading is more important than ease of writing. That may be the case now but in a theoretical future where software systems are g

> so ease of maintainability/reading is more important than ease of writing. That may be the case now but in a theoretical future where software systems are generated by AI why would I bother modifying the old system? Why not generate a new one with the original prompts modified to meet the new requirements? In a sense the "source code" of the system could be the AI model + the prompts.