> Managing a codebase written by an LLM is difficult because you have not cognitively loaded the entire thing into your head as you do with code written yourself.
I don't think that's the main reason. Well written code is easier to follow even when you haven't written it yourself (or maybe you did but forgot about it).
I argue you still need to cognitively load the solution, it's just that well written code allows you to (a) segment the code base effectively and (b) hold it at a higher level of abstraction.
Absolutely. The comment I was responding to argued the difficulty was that LLM code wasn't loaded cognitively. I'm arguing the problem is actually the code produced by LLMs tends to be messy and hard to follow beyond trivial examples.
I don't think that's the main reason. Well written code is easier to follow even when you haven't written it yourself (or maybe you did but forgot about it).