alt Hacker NewsYeah, I remember when the lazy bastards started writing programs using compilers instead of learning assembly language. Now I don’t have a single colleague who can write assembly. There’s whole generations now who can’t code assembly. Most don’t even know what a register is. Hope Zig holds against this latest attempt to make everyone stupid.
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Generating AI code/PR is not the same as using compilers because of at least two things:
- the scale of how much and how fast you can generate code with AI vs how fast can you write code for compiler
- the mental model of what is being generated and how much the contributor understands and owns the generated code
Using an LLM isn't analogous to using a higher level language.
Your analogy falls apart because the "lazy bastards" still knew how to program and understood the code they were working on.
Vide-coders often don't read, let alone understand, the code they send for PRs.
There’s a big difference between (mostly) deterministic compiler and non-deterministic LLMs.
To add to the other commenters, loads of people don’t know assembly, which speaks to the quality of the average developer. The ones that still understand assembly to this day tend to be better developers, writing faster and more efficient code.