Comment by rudedogg

> increasing the level of abstraction developers can work at

Something is lost each step of the abstraction ladder we climb. And the latest rung uses natural language which introduces a lot of imprecision/slop, in a way that prior abstractions did not. And, this new technology providing the new abstraction is non-deterministic on top of that.

There's also the quality issue of the output you do get.

I don't think the analogy of the assembly -> C transition people like to use holds water – there are some similarities but LLMs have a lot of downsides.