Hmm, I actually think complexity is a red herring here. Postulate that you have a viable software business, and work backwards from there. Everything else: eve

Hmm, I actually think complexity is a red herring here. Postulate that you have a viable software business, and work backwards from there. Everything else: every purchase and every pay period you pay someone to work for you is a cost, from this point of view, and undesirable unless necessary for the welfare of the business. But every cost is a step away from the platonic ideal of a business, one with arbitrarily high profits and arbitrarily low costs. I agree that complexity is worse than simplicity, to the extent that complexity really is more expensive. But cost: whether long term or short term, capital or operational, is what really matters. The question is whether LLM-generated code increases or reduces cost. Size, complexity, and a million other details not considered in the OP or in your comment all matter a lot.