> when the author is an AI and the consumer is a compiler, and no human needs to read the output at all.

This seems like a big bet on the assumption that fully autonomous codegen without humans in the loop is imminent if not already present - frankly, I hope you are wrong.

Even if that comes to pass in some cases, I also find it hard to believe that an LLM will ever be able to generate code in any new language at the same level with which it can generate stack overflow-shaped JavaScript and python, because it’ll never have as robust of a training set for new languages.