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If you don't particularly care how the code works or specifically what it does it seems pointless to worry about abstraction. Since, as you say, it solved the what you wanted solved and did so quickly.

But when you do care, it becomes important.

And, I suppose, computer code in general is terrible about writing things at the right level of abstraction, or at least human generated code is and I think LLMs do worse, somehow. So there is something to be said for prose as a specification language in most cases.

But I still think we're going to end up with some kind of code to reason about programs. Same way mathematicians have been using mathematical notation to reason about maths. But maybe it will be different code. Who knows, literary programming might catch on.