An interesting question. We (humans) care about maintainability because the codebase will be adapted by teams of us for many years, based on new feature and bug fixes.
Rewriting from scratch is basically never an option after a certain amount of time.
Maybe the machines could just start from scratch each time and come at maintainability from a totally different angle
Rewriting from scratch is basically never an option after a certain amount of time.
Maybe the machines could just start from scratch each time and come at maintainability from a totally different angle