Most code will never be read

2026-06-09 · update

Code gets written faster than anyone reads it, including the person who generated it and the reviewer.
Reading it kept the codebase consistent with itself, same patterns, same decisions, one architecture instead of ten.
People stopped reading assembly only after compilers became dependable. This time reading has thinned before generation is dependable.
For diligence the question is now how the code is being verified.