Pretty sure Casey Muratori and Demetri Spanos cover why in one of their videos online.

Less about “trusting” the llm and more about how complex it is to work with binaries due to machine code being different per machine and hard to interpret the context of the code as well as offsets.

In that sense because high level languages come with the ability to add context to what code does. It’s like the understanding a human has when given decompiled C code ghidra gives you vs C source code a developer wrote.

Also the compiler helps the llm write “compiled / working code”, if it just spat out machine code it most likely not even run at all.

But yea generally if you can’t write code at all, reviewing it is even harder.