What is good code? Functional, correct, fast. If you’re a Mac user, you’d expect delightful to be in the mix. But there’s more. Boring and predictable, for example. If boring code works, it’s often the best kind of code. Easy to extend, easy to fix, easy to understand. LLMs can be great at this. Tests ensure the code is correct, and being trained on a large corpus of data gives at least predictability and, probably because it’s averaged out across many implementations, plain boring code. And that’s great. For code. When writing, though? Boring and predictable writing can be described...