Similarly, make your methods short - really, really short. If you have 10 lines of code and put them each in their own method, great! Maybe it isnt the fastest code to read - but readable method names will make it obvious what each line does, and combining independent methods together is far easier than breaking one massive method into chunks.
I agree with a lot you said and this reads like advice straight from Robert Martins "Clean Code", but I've recently read a discussion between him and John Ousterhout, where John makes compelling arguments for longer, "deeper" functions. I found the discussion very interesting and actually started reading "A Philosophy of Software Design" shortly after. Would recommend!
Also kinda ironic that Zig itself takes a very different direction as it has a strict no LLM policy and recently moved from GitHub to Codeberg.