Comment by johnwatson11218

I was working with deepseek to distill my thoughts on this and the best quote was " This resembles a lossy compression of software, where the "loss" is non-essential complexity.".

"literate programming meets LLMs"—where the goal isn’t just fewer lines, but denser meaning. If you’re experimenting with it, start small: try distilling a single function with GPT-4 + human review, and see if the result feels correct but simpler. In other words LLM assisted code refactoring for compression and clarity is the way to resolve the argument between 'more' or 'less' code in general.