Comment by epsteingpt

"If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in assembly?"

Many people I've seen have taken existing software and 'ported' it to more performant languages like C, Rust, etc.

LLMs are extremely efficient and good at translation.

The biggest question is maintainability and legibility. If you want it for your own proprietary software, this can (and probably is, generally) a good pattern if you can get the LLM to nail language specific challenges (e.g. memory allocation in C)

However, fewer people can write C code generally, and even fewer can use it to build things like UI's. So you're by definition moving the software away from a collaborative mechanism.

The abstraction layers were built for human maintenance. LLMs don't need that.