I spent the whole last week covering, speaking to, debating with many of the top AI Engineers, at the AIE Europe conference in London. One question came up, and I dubbed it the Z/L Continuum: Should AI Engineers even look at code anymore?

i think the intended target of the software matters - Zechner needs to make a small tasteful core agent that others can extend/depend on, whereas Lopopolo needs to ship a large 1M LOC enterprise app with a tiny team of 5

the code conclusions kinda fall out of those constraints