> I would argue that any sufficiently large system reaches a point where more code is in fact the opposite of what it needs.

I have absolutely worked on code bases I would describe as "marbleized bricks" where the best thing I can do is carve out the statue they already contain. There's a great satisfaction in making PRs that mostly delete things, but the later result is a program that works faster, has fewer bugs/edge cases, is easier for the next person to debug.

The LLMs certainly can add more layers of marble. Companies don't often know how much more they need an artist with sculpting tools more than a bricklayer.