I'm guessing you haven't worked on a large project that used passive code generation.

The application I've been working on for the last 4 years has had a gradually increasing amount of its code generated, some of it at install-time and more at run-time, and I expect that amount to continue to increase. The code is currently a little short of 50k lines.

We have not had problems with hand-editing of the generated code. On the rare occasion that an urgent problem has been fixed by hand-editing, the immediate next step has always been to update the source to apply the equivalent fix, test and reinstall.

Hugo