Comment by curt15

> There is no longer anyone to turn to if this system breaks by, eg, having a critical bug that no one can figure out. No causal model in anyone's head that can be appealed to, to slowly and methodically debug.

At this point, why even bother with source code? Source code is designed for humans to comprehend. If humans are no longer the intended audience, why not have machines output and maintain some more efficient intermediate representation of computer programs?