Comment by orblivion
21 hours ago
Compilers are a layer of abstraction that we can ask another human about. Some human is there taking care of it. Until we get to the point where we trust AI with our survival it would be good to be able to audit the entire stack.
any human can read the code an AI produces.
Nope, not anymore. Many already forgot how to do that and it's not a joke.
And putting aside the vanishing skill, there is also an issue of volume.
I agree that the problem is volume, even more so than correctness.
All that LLMs and other generative models have done is enable an order of magnitude more stuff to be created cheaply. This then puts the onus and cost on the consumer of that output, hence why everyone is exhausted after a day of work that just involves looking over output. This volume of output will cause people to stop looking at all of the output and just trust the randomly generated code, and in time the quality will suffer.
So... Our jobs are safe then? I mean, assuming we don't also atrophy to the same extent as the 'many'?
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You could say the same thing about compiled code, actually it's worse because anything a compiler spits out is very hard to understand even for those who understand assembly.
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Have you tried to shift through a whole lot of vibe coded slop? It’s really mentally draining to see all of the really bad techniques they fall back on just to brute force a solution.
for now. some people seem to think we should make ai native programming languages and just let them be black boxes. which is a bad idea imo
How can you read a language you didn't learn?
Unless people can't think without the AI.
here's a tip, it would really help if you put yourself into a Ralph loop before posting comments.