Code as an "artifact". Means to an end?

Agentic LLM's have changed what 'code' means. It used be the end product of the software engineering lifecycle is 'code' 📜 and there are purported arguments claiming that it is no more as LLM's themselves write 'code'. What remains is the spec as the 'code' can be regenerated in N number of ways on demand. 🔨 Does that mean 'code' is irrelevant and as long as you have a golden spec to derive…