Haha and suddenly we'll have the pivot where all the software engineers try their hand at being writers. I can already see glimpses of it here wirh articles like this.

Code can be thick, but it's really the value and conscientiousness of the thing being created that will be judged as "thick".

One hope I have when the wave of AI acceleration comes smashing down to reality is that it will force people into being deliberate, measured, and "thick" with their designs, approaches, attitudes, etc.

i’m working on a little ios widget display currently. even a tiny little one view box has hundreds of nuanced design and structure decisions behind it.

That reasoning is the thickness not the amount of code that powers it though they are somewhat interrelated.