This is an interesting thought experiment, but I don’t think it’s realistic. Software that “works” doesn’t necessarily work. And software that doesn’t work can

This is an interesting thought experiment, but I don’t think it’s realistic. Software that “works” doesn’t necessarily work. And software that doesn’t work can cost catastrophic financial losses. Worse yet, those losses are going to be felt more painfully when they are incurred recklessly. There is a reason that humans developed analytical problem solving as an alternative to trial and error: when you can do it, it’s more effective, and safer. That’s not to say that disposable code doesn’t have some interesting implications! One of them is that experimentation becomes a lot cheaper, so it’s faster to navigate the search space of possible solutions to a problem. But just taking a “solution” directly from an LLM without validating its correctness is fundamentally unserious and will be punished by reality sooner or later.