alt Hacker NewsI assume he’s mostly joking but… how often do you look at the assembly of your code?
To the AI optimist, the idea of reading code line by line will see as antiquated as perusing CPU registers line by line. Something do when needed, but typically can just trust your tooling to do the right thing.
I wouldn’t say I am in that camp, but that’s one thought on the matter. That natural language becomes “the code” and the actual code becomes “machine language”.
And you could say that the difference is that high-level languages are deterministically transformed down, but in practice the compiler is so complex you'd have no idea what it's doing and most people don't look at the machine code anyway. You may as well take a look at the LLM's prompt and make an assumption of the high-level code that it spits out.