I disagree with the presumption that code is a means to an ends. That axiom assumes that having "ends" at all is valid and beyond reproach.

What do we really need in life? Why must the code provide a utility to us. The same is true of every discipline.

As a community, as a society, we can determine what problem areas we must consider "utilitarian" and what we don't. Capitalism, neoliberalism, these ideologies take utility as the given end goal for an entire society and all of it's facets. Everything must be sacrificed in the name of line-go-up.

My chief argument is that at this point 90% of daily human needs are met, in excess, by the tools and systems we already have. AI provides utility, certainly, but why should I want it?