Chollet says LRMs make hand-written code less worthwhile

François Chollet says he no longer reads or writes code and instead directs a large reasoning model, though he does not consider its code quality perfect or its instructions reliably followed.

He argues LRMs enable faster ways to test, audit, visualize, and red-team a codebase, achieving the benefits of code review through new workflows.

He concludes that the return on hand-writing code no longer looks good, since these workflows can be more productive than the old ones.