Comment by jmalicki

I've actually found that well-written well-documented non-spaghetti code is even more important now that we have LLMs.

Why? Because LLMs can get easily confused, so they need well written code they can understand if the LLM is going to maintain the codebase it writes.

The cleaner I keep my codebase, and the better (not necessarily more) abstracted it is, the easier it is for the LLM to understand the code within its limited context window. Good abstractions help the right level of understanding fit within the context window, etc.

I would argue that use of LLMs change what good code is, since "good" now means you have to meaningfully fit good ideas in chunks of 125k tokens.