@jasongorman This might be confounding multiple things. We might spend so much time reading code because: the code is hard to read and because writing code is hard too.
I think that LLMs actually help for both cases, but they need us to rethink how we write and read code. LLMs help a lot to make code consistent stylistically (API patterns and documentation phrasing) and they can generate a lot of code that can be thrown away on the path to consistent abstractions.