Comment by somewhereoutth
9 hours ago
Really not the same. Assembly / machine code is entirely deterministic - they are a notation for your thoughts. LLM produced content is more a smorgasbord of other people's thoughts, and cannot help you with clarity, conviction, etc etc.
Yes Assembly is deterministic (barring severe hardware bugs). But that's the point. People are no longer writing Assembly.
They meant to say that swithing from assembly to high-level programming is not the same as switching from high-level programming to LLMs, because the latter loses you the guarantee that the computer will do what you told it to.