a good way to look at it is that problems solved is an asset, but lines of code are a liability. you pay the cost of maintaining that code because you want the

a good way to look at it is that problems solved is an asset, but lines of code are a liability. you pay the cost of maintaining that code because you want the benefit of the problems it solves. note that LLM-generated code is even more of a liability because when you go to maintain it you will not have the context of the decisions that went into writing it - it's legacy code from day one.