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archagon • today at 9:55 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

AI does not create a new layer of abstraction; a compiler does. This is computer science 101 and I'm kind of shocked that so many engineers make this basic mistake.


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pterosaur • today at 10:11 PM

How come AI is not a new layer of abstraction?

AI translates prompts in natural language into code in a programming language, just as a compiler translates a programming language into assembly.

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