alt Hacker NewsGenerative AI is definitely creating political will for simpler, more purposely-designed computer systems, but it's certainly not going to directly create help them in any meaningful way. AI-generated codebases are the posterchild of rat's nests of complexity.
I'd say the code I see coming out of leading models today is okay. Not great, but not terrible. It's also easy to get LLMs to code in more efficient languages, and you can also goad them via prompts and CLAUDE.md type stuff into prioritizing performance and simplicity.
It's sort of like what I say about self driving cars. Are they better than good human drivers? Not yet. Are they better than bad, drunk, or texting drivers? Yes.
LLMs are already better than bad coders and honestly most coders are bad coders.