Comment by Pannoniae

Actually, it isn't that different. Compilers are trash. They produce hilariously bloated and stupid code, even the C++ compilers, not to speak about your average JIT compiler.

However, in practice we don't care because it's good enough for 99% of the code. Sure, it could be like 5x better at least but who cares, our computers are fast enough.:tm:

AI is the same. Is it as good as the best human output? Definitely not. Does it do the job most of the time? Yes, and that's what people care about.

(But yes, for high-impact work - there's many people who know how to read x64 asm or PTX/SASS and they do insane stuff.)